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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.
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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 lectured at the Courtauld Institute from 1966–82, during which he was Visiting Fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1972–73. 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.
After retiring from the Courtauld, Cormack held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship 2004–06 and a scholarship at the Getty Research Institute 2005–06, and was Special Professor in Classics at the University of Nottingham 2005–08. He is now Invited Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, where his wife, Mary Beard, is Professor; Professor Emeritus in the History of Art, University of London; and Senior Academic Visitor at Wolfson College, Cambridge. His current research interests include the cultural history of Saint Catherine's Monastery from Late Antiquity onwards.
Personal life
In 1985 Cormack married Mary Beard; they have a daughter, Zoe born in 1985 and a son, Raphael born in 1987.