António Filipe Pimentel

António Manuel Filipe Rocha Pimentel (born 5 December 1959 in São Pedro de Alva, Penacova) is a Portuguese academic and art historian currently the director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal. He served as director of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga from March 2010 until June 2019. Prior to this he was the director of the Museu Grão Vasco, in Viseu. Between 2007 and 2009 he was Dean of the University of Coimbra, responsible for the field of Heritage. Between 2020 and 2022 he sat on the board of directors for the World Monuments Fund Portugal. Graduating in history (with a specialization in History of Art) from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, in 1986, he then completed his master's degree in Cultural and Political History of the Modern Age in 1991. In 2003 he completed his doctorate in History of Art. He is a permanent lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra. An expert in baroque art and historic and artistic heritage, he was awarded the Gulbenkian History of Art Prize in 1991. A corresponding member of both the National Academy of Fine Arts and the Naval Academy, and a member of the Scientific Society of the Portuguese Catholic University, he regularly works with national and international scientific institutions and has published around three hundred titles, in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, UK, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Brazil. As Dean of the University of Coimbra, he was the scientific coordinator for the university's application for its historical and cultural complex to be given UNESCO World Heritage status. As director of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, António Filipe Pimentel became known for running several successful and innovative communications campaigns. Initiatives such as the project Coming Out. Bringing the Museum onto the streets, which, in 2015, took to the historical neighborhoods of Lisbon replicas of works from its collections of Portuguese and European paintings, helped promote the institution at the national and international level.