Francis Haskell (1928–2000)

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1. Francis Haskell

   Author of History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past, Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque, Revised and en, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900

2. E. H. Gombrich

   Author of Meditations On a Hobby Horse and Other Essays On the Theory of Art, Norm and Form, Symbolic Images

3. Timothy J. Clark

   Author of The painting of modern life: Paris in the art of Manet and his followers, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851

4. Michael Levey

   Author of Florence: A Portrait, Early Renaissance, Painting in Eighteenth-Century Venice (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)

5. Walter Friedlaender

   Author of David to Delacroix, Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting (Interpretations in Art), Caravaggio Studies

6. Rudolf Wittkower

   Author of Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750, Sculpture: Processes and Principles

7. Christopher Brown

   Author of Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop: Paintings, Dutch landscape: The early years, Haarlem and Amsterdam, 1590-1650 : an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, Sept

8. Richard Krautheimer

   Author of Rome: A Profile of a City, 312-1308, The Rome of Alexander VII, 1655-1667

9. Anthony Blunt

   Author of Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700, Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450-1600

10. Heinrich Wölfflin

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

11. Erwin Panofsky

    Author of Meaning in the Visual Arts, Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art

12. Ingrid D. Rowland

    Author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome

13. Thomas Crow

    Author of Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France; New Edition

14. Jonathan Brown

    Author of Kings & Connoisseurs

15. Jules Lubbock

    Author of Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

16. John Onians

    Author of Bearers of Meaning

17. Max J. Friedlander

    Author of From Van Eyck to Bruegel

18. Michael Baxandall

    Author of Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures

19. David Freedberg

    Author of The Power of Images

20. Elizabeth Alice Honig

    Author of Painting and the Market in Early Modern Antwerp (Yale Publications in the History of Art)