Gabriele Finaldi

Class of 1974 Short-Term Fellow

Fall 2025-2026

Photograph of Gabriele Finaldi: a man with dark hair in a blue suit and tie sitting in an art gallery.

Sir Gabriele Finaldi has been Director of the National Gallery, London, since August 2015. He was previously Deputy Director for Collections and Research at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain. Prior to his role at the Prado, he was a curator at the National Gallery in London between 1992 and 2002, where he was responsible for the later Italian paintings in the collection (Caravaggio to Canaletto) and the Spanish collection (Bermejo to Goya). Finaldi studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he completed his doctorate in 1995 on the seventeenth-century Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera. He has curated exhibitions in Britain, Spain, Italy, Belgium, and the United States. He has written catalogues and scholarly articles on Velázquez and Zurbarán, Italian Baroque painting, and religious iconography.