Hear a presentation by historian and archeologist Simon Thurley on the architectural history of the Tudor period. This presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q+A facilitated by Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

About the speakers

Thomas P. Campbell, a distinguished art historian in the field of renaissance and baroque art, has served for over a decade as director and CEO of two major US art museums — the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2009 through 2017 and, since 2018, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. At the Met, Campbell led a revitalization and modernization program embodied in award-winning exhibitions and publications, major capital projects, investment in technology and digital initiatives, and historic donations of works of art. Since joining the Fine Arts Museums, Campbell has worked together with staff and board members to strengthen the institution’s ties to local communities through an ongoing Free Saturdays program, key acquisitions and partnerships, and the de Young Open exhibition.

Simon Thurley is a leading historian with a primary interest in English architecture. In 2013, he published his history of English architecture “The Building of England,” and he is now working on its second edition to bring it up to date and to add two new chapters continuing the story up to 2020. Most recently he has completed a two-volume project to tell the story of royal building, patronage, and social life at the courts of the Tudors and Stuarts: “Houses of Power” (2017) and “Palaces of Revolution” (2021). The accompanying website is https://www.royalpalaces.com/. He has also written widely on the protection and interpretation of historic sites including in “Men from the Ministry” (2013), which, for the first time, tells the story of the invention of modern heritage in England.


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