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AC: What is your background in art history – how did you first become interested in it as a subject?

AR: I didn’t study art history at school, but I became interested in it incrementally during a year between school and university which I spent in Germany, in northern Bavaria.

I got very interested in renaissance sculpture – there was quite a lot of it to see in the neighboring area.

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That stayed at the back of my mind, and then I came to do my undergraduate degree (at St Andrews). Initially, I had applied to study English Literature, but, thanks to the versatility of the Scottish degree, I converted to Art History in my second year – and that’s how the interest in the subject came about.

AC: And then you went on to do a masters and a PhD immediately after?

AR: Not immediately.

I lived in Edinburgh for a year and got a job working as a secretary for the press officers at the Scottish Executive, which soon after became the Sc