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

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and the

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, where he was a

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, earned a degree in Law and History of Art. He did post-doctoral research at the

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. He curated ''Houghton Revisited'', which won Apollo magazine's 'Exhibition of the Year' award in 2013. Morel has written and produced plays and films, including a ten-part television documentary series on art collectors, ''Private View''. He has written for magazines including ''

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''.

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morel, Thierry Living people French art historians French curators French non-fiction writers Alumni of the University of Oxford French Rhodes Scholars University of Paris alumni Year of birth missing (living people)