Carl Tancred Borenius (14 July 1885, Vyborg – 2 September 1948, Coombe Bisset) was a Finnish art historian working in England, who became the first professor of the history of art at University College London. He was a prolific author, and recognised as one of the world's leading experts on Italian art of the early Renaissance.
Borenius also served as a diplomat liaising between Finland and Britain. It has been argued that during World War II he worked as a spy for the British MI6, and was instrumental in enticing Rudolf Hess to fly to Britain in 1941.
^Borenius, Tancred . Biografiskt lexikon för Finland.
Carl TancredBorenius (14 July 1885, Vyborg – 2 September 1948, Coombe Bisset) was a Finnish art historian working in England, who became the first professor...
Publishing, 2006). Friedländer, Max J., On Art and Connoisseurship, trans. TancredBorenius (London: B. Cassierer, 1942). L'art du connaisseur = The art of connoisseurship...
north of Odstock village and a 10-minute drive from Coombe Bissett. TancredBorenius (1885–1948), Finnish art historian, died at Laverstock House hospital...
PhD (1950), Professor (1948–1966) Dame Phyllida Barlow, Sculptor TancredBorenius (1885–1948), art historian, diplomat and British wartime spy Sir Peter...
scholar, he is generally credited, alongside Sacheverell Sitwell and TancredBorenius, with bringing Italian pre-Baroque and Baroque painters to the attention...
Irene Åström (1847–1934) First female university graduate in Finland TancredBorenius (1885–1948) Art historian and diplomat Anders Chydenius (1729–1803)...
languages and later studied a Doctor of Philosophy art degree under TancredBorenius. Harris travelled to Spain to research Caravaggio's influence on 17th-century...
note 1), now in the British Library, Sloane MS 4004, published by TancredBorenius, The Picture Gallery of Andrea Vendramin (London: The Medici Society)...
Early 1921 – 1933 Herbert Read: 1933–1939 Albert C. Sewter: 1939–1940 TancredBorenius: 1940–1944 Edith Hoffmann (Assistant Editor who ran the Magazine with...
1872 London, England May 20, 1956 Rapallo, Italy 1933 Nominated by TancredBorenius (1885–1948) the only time. Hayim Nahman Bialik January 9, 1873 Volhynia...
undertaken at the site between 1933 and 1939 by the Finnish art historian TancredBorenius. Further excavations were carried out in 1957, 1964, 1965 and in the...
York). Joseph Archer Crowe and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1912). TancredBorenius (ed.). A History of Painting in North Italy, Venice, Padua, Vicenza...
McAuliffe, teacher and astronaut, in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1986) Died: TancredBorenius, 63, Finnish art historian and diplomat; Sylvanus Morley, 65, American...
to British art is well known. In The Burlington Magazine in 1942, TancredBorenius wrote: "A highly personal sense of colour in a lovely, luminous totality...
published her first article in 1930, under the supervision of her mentor TancredBorenius. Immediately after graduating she joined the staff of the recently...
there in 1911 with Bronislaw Malinowski. She lost friends including TancredBorenius over attitudes sympathetic to Russia. From 1912 she held classes at...
(1938) Virginia Rath, La Folie sous la neige, Paris, Simon. (1938) TancredBorenius, La Peinture anglaise au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Hypérion. (1938) Patrick...
lifting of two pavements and a 13th-century kiln previously uncovered by TancredBorenius and had them transported to the museum where, a few years later, she...
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