Dr Caroline Campbell is Director of the National Gallery of Ireland. She was previously Director of Collections and Research at the National Gallery in London, a curator at the Ashmolean Museum, Curator of Paintings at the Courtauld Gallery and The Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department at the National Gallery. Caroline was educated at University College, Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art and is a former fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York. She is passionate about widening public engagement with art and has spoken to audiences around the world on numerous subjects from art history.
A formidable work of synthesis ... Each of [Campbell's] case studies, however, is taut in its telling and rich in detail ... lovers of historical facts will be in clover ... In the author's persuasive telling, the world as we know it is not the creation of great men and their battles, but of an infinite number of artists and craftsmen -- Michael Prodger * Country Life *