Hugh Honour

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1. Michael Levey

   Author of Rococo to Revolution: Major Trends in Eighteenth-Century Painting, Early Renaissance, High Renaissance (Style and Civilization)

2. Tove Jansson

   Author of Comet in Moominland, Moominland Midwinter, Moominvalley in November

3. Linda Nochlin

   Author of Realism, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays

4. Hugh Honour

   Author of Neo-Classicism (Style and Civilization), Romanticism

5. Erwin Panofsky

   Author of Meaning in the Visual Arts, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art

6. Walter Friedlaender

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

7. Arnold Hauser

   Author of The Social History of Art, v. 2: Renaissance, mannerism, baroque, The Social History of Art, v.3: Rococo, classicism and romanticism, The Social History of Art, v.4: Naturalism, impressionism, the film age

8. Peter Murray

   Author of The Penguin Dictionary of Art And Artists: Seventh Edition (Dictionary, Penguin), The art of the Renaissance, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

9. Alta Macadam

   Author of Blue Guide Rome, Blue Guide Italy Northern Italy, Blue Guide Venice

10. E. H. Gombrich

    Author of The Story of Art, Art and Illusion

11. Kenneth Clark

    Author of The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art, Landscape into art, Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance

12. Robert Rosenblum

    Author of 19th century art, Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art

13. Timothy J. Clark

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

14. Anthony Blunt

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

15. Heinrich Wölfflin

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

16. Frederick Hartt

    Author of History of Italian Renaissance Art, Art: A history of painting, sculpture, and architecture, Art: A History Of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture: Volume II, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern World

17. Henry M. Sayre

    Author of A World of Art with CD-ROM (4th Edition), Writing About Art

18. 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

19. Jan Morris

    Author of Venice, The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage, The World of Venice: Revised Edition

20. Mary Therese McCarthy

    Author of The Stones of Florence, Venice Observed, The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed