Bruce Boucher is an art historian and curator who served as director of Sir John Soane’s Museum from 2016 to 2023. Specializing in Italian Renaissance, Baroque, and Neo-classical art and architecture, he is the author of a number of books, including The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino, Andrea Palladio: the Architect in his Time and Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova.
“Elegantly and engagingly written for the general reader and richly illustrated with full-colour photographs.”—Laura Freeman, Times (UK) “Richly illustrated with new photography and material uncovered from museum archives. . . . A treasure house of anecdotes and analysis that does full justice to the spectacle of Soane’s breathtaking Wunderkammer.”—Tim Newark, The Spectator “This handsomely produced book opens the complexity of Soane’s collecting and installation for an interested non-specialist better than anything that has gone before.”—Alan Powers, CountryLife