Peter Murray (art historian)
Peter John Murray was a Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck College, London, from 1967, succeeding Nikolaus Pevsner. He retired in 1980 and was succeeded in turn by John Steer.
Together with his wife Linda Murray, Peter Murray wrote primers about Italian Renaissance art which have been used by generations of students. Linda Murray also wrote several books on her own, and completed their collaboration The Oxford Companion To Christian Art And Architecture after her husband died.Selected publications
