E. H. Gombrich (1909–2001)

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1. E. H. Gombrich

   Author of The Story of Art, Meditations On a Hobby Horse and Other Essays On the Theory of Art, New Light On Old Masters

2. Kenneth Clark

   Author of Civilization, Leonardo da Vinci, The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste

3. Simon Schama

   Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Landscape and Memory, The Embarrassment of Riches

4. Erwin Panofsky

   Author of Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, Perspective as Symbolic Form

5. Rudolf Arnheim

   Author of Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order, The Dynamics of Architectural Form

6. Michael Baxandall

   Author of Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style, Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures, The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany

7. Robert Hughes, 1938-

   Author of The Shock of the New, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists

8. Johan Huizinga

   Author of The Autumn of the Middle Ages, Homo Ludens

9. Heinrich Wölfflin

   Author of Principles of Art History, Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance and Baroque

10. Umberto Eco

    Author of History of beauty, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

11. E. J. Hobsbawm

    Author of The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, The age of revolution: Europe 1789-1848

12. Benvenuto Cellini

    Author of The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

13. Michel de Montaigne

    Author of The Complete Essays

14. H. W. Janson

    Author of A History of Art

15. Jacob Burckhardt

    Author of The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Der Cicerone

16. John Berger

    Author of Ways of Seeing

17. Alberto Manguel

    Author of A History of Reading, The Library at Night

18. Lytton Strachey

    Author of Eminent Victorians

19. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

    Author of Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324

20. Leon Battista Alberti

    Author of On Painting, On the Art of Building in Ten Books