Thomas de wesselow biography
Thomas de Wesselow studied art history at Edinburgh University and earned his MA and PhD at London's Courtland Institute of Art. Since he has been researching the Shroud full-time....
Thomas de Wesselow is an art historian experienced at tackling “unsolvable” problems.
Eight years ago, [Thomas] de Wesselow was a successful art historian, based at King’s College, [Cambridge,] making a name for himself in scholarly circles by taking a fresh look at centuries-old disputes over the attribution of masterpieces of Renaissance painting.
Today, he still lives in the university city – we are sitting in its Fitzwilliam Museum café – but de Wesselow has thrown up his conventional career and any hopes of a professorial chair to join the ranks of what he laughingly calls “shroudies”.
“In academia, the subject of the Shroud is seen as toxic,” he reports, “and no one wants to open the can of worms, but try as I might I just couldn’t resist it as an intellectual puzzle.”
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