Robin Cormack
Robin Sinclair Cormack, FSA (born 27 September 1938) is a British classicist and art historian, specialising in Byzantine art. He was Professor in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1991–2004. Career Robin Cormack was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford, and gained his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University. He wrote his dissertation on Thessaloniki after iconoclasm under the supervision of Hugo Buchthal and Cyril Mango and it was the latter who suggested he should spend time at Dumbarton Oaks. Cormack became visiting fellow of Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks in the 1972–73 academic year, taking a year's leave from his lectureship at the Courtauld Institute (1966 to 1982). He later returned to Dumbarton Oaks as a visiting scholar in 2011. After three years as reader at the Warburg Institute, during which he also held a fellowship at Robinson College, Cambridge 1984–85, Cormack returned to the Courtauld Institute as reader and professor. He was also deputy director 1999–2002. Photographs attributed to Cormack are held in the Conway Library, whose archive of primarily architectural images is being digitised under the wider Courtauld Connects project. After retiring from the Courtauld, Cormack