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Ronald William Lightbown (b. 1932) is a prominent art historian specialising in works from the Italian Renaissance period.

Family
Son of Vincent and Helen (née Anderson) Lightbown. Born Spring 1932 in Burness, Blackburn, Lancashire.

Married fellow art historian Mary Dorothy Webster during the summer of 1962 in Hampstead, Middlesex.

Academia and Career

 * MA Cantab
 * 1958: Joined V&A as an assistant curator.
 * 1973: Deputy keeper at V&A
 * 1976: Keeper of the Library at the V&A
 * "later": Keeper of Metalwork at the V&A
 * 1989: Retired alongside ceramics curator John Mallet and others, allegedly caused by the restructuring implemented by director Elizabeth Esteve-Coll - DAH says "very public controversy ensued about the Museum saving money by force-retiring its departmental scholars" -- citation given:.
 * 2005: Awarded Serenal Medal for Italian Studies by the British Academy

No death noted as yet.

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Co-Authors:
 * Alan Caiger-Smith
 * John Pope-Hennessy
 * André Rouquet
 * Margery Corbett
 * Mildred Archer
 * Jean Delumeau

Artists/Subjects:
 * Simonetta Vespucci
 * Sandro Botticelli
 * Donatello
 * Jean Petitot
 * Anthony Pasquin
 * Michelozzo
 * Carlo Crivello
 * Edward Augustus Stratford (1736-1801), 2nd Earl of Aldborough
 * Medieval jewellery
 * Rosaries
 * Goldsmith (?)
 * Silverware (?)