Rachel Boyd gave Scholars a guided tour of the Renaissance section of London's V&A.
Around 40 Scholars visited the V&A museum [Victoria and Albert] in London on Thursday and were given a personal tour of the Renaissance section by Scholar Rachel Boyd, who is the museum’s Senior Curator of Renaissance Sculpture.
Boyd [2009] did an MPhil in the History of Art and Architecture and is one of a number of Scholars who are now working in the field of curation.
She says her childhood experience living in Rome was instrumental in the formation of her academic passions: art history and Italian. At Cambridge, she studied neo-Classical art and architecture and said: “I focus on this period because I am fascinated by the ways in which 18th- and 19th-
century travellers to Italy reinterpreted ancient Rome’s artistic vocabulary in their own works.” She also studied how these foreign visions, in turn, shaped contemporary Italian artistic practice.
Since leaving Cambridge, she has worked at a number of museums and galleries, including the National Gallery of Art in the US and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford as well as teaching at universities including Columbia and Edinburgh University.
*Rachel is pictured at the top talking to Scholars.
