Michael Hirst

David Michael Geoffrey Hirst, FBA (5 September 1933 – 14 December 2017), commonly known as Michael Hirst, was an art historian and an expert on Italian Renaissance art. He was Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art from 1991 to 1997.

Biography

David Michael Geoffrey Hirst was born on 5 September 1933 and studied at New College, Oxford, and the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Photographs contributed by Michael Hirst to the Conway Library are currently being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art, as part of the Courtauld Connects project.

Prizes 2001, Serena Medal, British Academy.

Publications Sebastiano del Piombo. Oxford University Press, 1981. Michelangelo and His Drawings. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1983. The Young Michelangelo, with Jill Dunkerton. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1994. The Sistine Chapel: A Glorious Restoration. Abradale Press Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1994. Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2011