David Freedberg
David Freedberg was born in South Africa on June 4th, 1948 and is the American Art Historian. At the age of 75, David Freedberg biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, David Freedberg was educated at the South African College High School in Newlands, Cape Town (1961–65), the University of Cape Town (1966), Yale University (B.A. 1969), and the University of Oxford (D.Phil. 1973).
Freedberg’s first degree was in Classics, but he switched to art history while at Oxford as the result of the influence of E.H. Gombrich and Michael Baxandall with whom he studied at the Warburg Institute in London.
He taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London before being appointed Professor of the History of Art at Columbia in 1984. He has also been Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford in 1983–1984 and at Cambridge in 2016-2017, Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the National Gallery of Art (1996–1998), Nat C. Robertson Professor of Science and Society at Emory University (2006), Rudolf Wittkower Professor at the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome (2008-2009), etc. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Accademia Nazionale di Agricultura in Bologna, and the Istituto Veneto per le Scienze, Lettere e Arti.
A volume of Tributes to David A. Freedberg: Image and Insight was published in 2019, edited by Claudia Swan.