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Anthony Blunt
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British art historian and Soviet spy (1907-1983)
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Anthony Blunt was an art historian, university teacher, spy and curator, born on 26 September 1907 in Bournemouth. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, and served in the British Army. He was employed by MI5, Trinity College, the University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art, and belonged to the Cambridge Five, the Travellers Club and the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. A follower of Marxism, he wrote works including Les Impressionistes de la Collection Courtauld, Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450-1600 and The nation's pictures.
Blunt received the Commander of the Legion of Honour and was a Fellow of the British Academy. He died of a myocardial infarction from natural causes on 26 March 1983 in London, and was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1907
- Died
- 1983
- Works
- 89
Top works
- Les Impressionistes de la Collection Courtauld
- Paintings of Nicholas Poussin a Critical
- Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450-1600 (Oxford Paperbacks. no. 50.)
- Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600
- The nation's pictures;
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1974-02-22
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data
· 2014 · cited 61,916x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,474x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,783x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,620x
- Structure validation in chemical crystallography
· 2009 · cited 14,177x
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Key facts
- Born
- Anthony Frederick Blunt , ( 1907-09-26 ) 26 September 1907, Bournemouth , Hampshire , England
- Died
- 26 March 1983 (1983-03-26) (aged 75), Westminster , London , England
- Burial place
- Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium , London, England
- Alma mater
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Occupations
- Art historian , professor, writer, spy
- Awards
- KCVO , revoked in 1979
- Allegiance
- Soviet Union
- Codenames
- Tony Johnson Yan
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anthony
- Family name
- Blunt
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Bournemouth
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Marlborough College
- Employer
- Courtauld Institute of Art
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Military branch
- British Army
- Image
- The Soviet Union 1990 CPA 6266 stamp (Soviet Intelligence Agents. Kim Philby).jpg
- Work location
- London
- Political ideology
- Marxism
Show 8 more facts
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1907-09-26
- date of death
- 1983-03-26
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
- place of burial
- Putney Vale Cemetery
- name in native language
- Anthony Blunt
- interested in
- Q41554
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Encyclopedic overview
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 until November 1979, was a leading British art historian and a Soviet spy.
Blunt was a professor of the history of art at the University of London, the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. His 1967 monograph on the French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin is still widely regarded as a watershed book in art history. His teaching text and reference work Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700, first published in 1953, reached its fifth edition (in a version slightly revised by Richard Beresford) in 1999, at which time it was still considered the best account of the subject.
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