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German art historian (born 1956) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Zöllner (born 26 June 1956) is a German art historian. He is among the leading authorities on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci, about whom he has written numerous publications. These include book-length studies on the Mona Lisa and one of the two modern catalogues raisonnés of Leonardo's works, the other being by Pietro C. Marani.
Frank Zöllner | |
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Born | Bremen, Germany | 26 June 1956
Known for | Scholarship on Leonardo da Vinci |
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Alma mater | University of Hamburg (1987) |
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Discipline | Italian Renaissance art |
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He has been a professor of art history at Leipzig University since 1996.
Frank Zöllner was born on 26 June 1956 in Bremen, Germany.[1] He first studied art history from 1977 to 1981.[2] From 1983 to 1985, he was an Aby Warburg Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London,[2] studying with the art historian Ernst Gombrich.[3] Zöllner attended the University of Hamburg, graduating in 1987 with a PHD on the Renaissance-era artistic reception of Vitruvius.[2][4]
Zöllner worked from 1988 to 1992 as a research assistant at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome.[2] He received his Habilitation degree from the University of Marburg in 1987.[2] Since 1996, Zöllner has been a professor of medieval and modern art history at Leipzig University.[5]
Zöllner's Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings (2003), alongside Pietro C. Marani's Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings (2000), is "the most thoroughly referenced catalogue raisonnés of Leonardo’s paintings".[6] He has also published a catalogue raisonné of works by Sandro Botticelli, in 2005.[7]
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