Thierry Morel
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Thierry Morel is a French art historian and curator. He is the director and curator-at-large of the Hermitage Museum Foundation.
Morel was educated at the University of Paris and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, earned a degree in Law and History of Art.{{cite web |title=Morel, Thierry |url=https://www.ceeh.es/en/autor/morel-thierry/ |website=Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica |access-date=29 November 2022}} He did post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge.
He curated Houghton Revisited, which won Apollo magazine's 'Exhibition of the Year' award in 2013.{{cite web |title=Thierry Morel |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/author/thierry-morel/ |website=Apollo |access-date=29 November 2022}}
Morel has written and produced plays and films, including a ten-part television documentary series on art collectors, Private View.{{cite web |title=Thierry Morel |url=https://www.leadingculturedestinations.com/ambassadors-jury/2020/1/9/thierry-morel |website=Leading Culture Destinations |access-date=29 November 2022}} He has written for magazines including Apollo.{{cite news |last1=Morel |first1=Thierry |title=12 Days |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/12-days-thierry-morel/ |access-date=29 November 2022 |work=Apollo |date=6 January 2014}}
Publications
- Houghton Revisited: The Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great's Hermitage, 2013
- Francis Bacon and the Masters: Fontanka, 2015
- The Splendor of St. Petersburg: Art & Life in Late Imperial Palaces of Russia, 2019
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Category:French art historians
Category:French non-fiction writers
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:French Rhodes Scholars