Dr Thomas-Leo True

An art historian specialising in Renaissance and Baroque architecture in Rome and the Papal States, Tom True took his doctorate at Cambridge, then returned to the British School at Rome, where he had already been Rome Scholar (2009–10) and Giles Worsley Fellow (2013), to serve as Assistant Director from 2015 to 2018. Along the way he made his home in Le Marche, tracing the region's Renaissance cardinals through its hill towns and archives. He now directs Hay Castle, the 900-year-old Welsh border fortress reborn as a centre for arts and ideas.