Since then, many are the candidates who have been proposed to replace him, including Taco Dibbits, collections director at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Axel Rüger, director of the Dutch capital’s Van Gogh Museum, and Luke Syson, director of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The post has been vacant since outgoing director Nicholas Penny announced that he was retiring in June of last year after six years at the helm. London-born Finaldi, who is of Italian descent, is already more than familiar with the National Gallery as he was curator of Italian and Spanish painting there between 19. The current Director of the National Gallery is Gabriele Finaldi. A Prado representative stated that Finaldi was away on a trip and that no comment would be made until the National Gallery and the British government had first done so.Īccording to the FT, British Prime Minister David Cameron has already okayed the appointment. houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. News that the Prado’s Gabriele Finaldi has been appointed to head London’s National Gallery shook the normally calm art museum world this week.įinaldi’s departure will be a blow to the Madrid gallery, where he has been assistant director since September 2002.īoth the Prado and the National Gallery declined to comment on the hiring, which had been rumored for some time and was reported in the online edition of the Financial Times. Gabriele Finaldi stands alongside Prado director Miguel Zugaza.
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