John Pope-Hennessy

Sir John Pope-Hennessy CBE
Pope-Hennessy at his desk.
Born	John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy (1913-12-13)13 December 1913 London, England
Died	31 October 1994(1994-10-31) (aged 80) Florence, Italy
Resting place	Cimitero degli Allori, Florence, Italy
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Occupation	Art historian
Parents	Richard Pope-Hennessy (father) Una Pope-Hennessy (mother)
Relatives	Sir John Pope Hennessy (grandfather) James Pope-Hennessy (brother)

Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy CBE FBA FSA (13 December 1913 – 31 October 1994), was a British art historian. Pope-Hennessy was director of the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1967 and 1973, and director of the British Museum between 1974 and 1976. He was a scholar of Italian Renaissance art. Many of his writings, including the tripartite Introduction to Italian Sculpture, and his magnum opus, Donatello: Sculptor, are regarded as classics in the field.