Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968)

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1. Erwin Panofsky

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

2. 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

3. E. H. Gombrich

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

4. Rudolf Wittkower

   Author of Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750

5. Heinrich Wölfflin

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

6. Meyer Schapiro

   Author of Romanesque Art: Selected Papers (Schapiro, Meyer, Selections.), Late antique, early Christian and mediaeval art, The Sculpture of Moissac

7. Walter Friedlaender

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

8. Arnold Hauser

   Author of The Social History of Art, v. 2: Renaissance, mannerism, baroque, The Social History of Art, v. 1: From prehistoric times to the Middle Ages, The Social History of Art, v.4: Naturalism, impressionism, the film age

9. Anthony Blunt

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

10. Lorraine Daston

    Author of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750, Objectivity, Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science

11. Jakob Rosenberg

    Author of Dutch Art and Architecture 1600-1800, Rembrandt, Life and Work (Landmarks in Art History)

12. John White

    Author of Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250-1400, The Birth & Rebirth of Pictorial Space

13. Christopher S. Wood

    Author of Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s, Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape

14. Kenneth Clark

    Author of The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art, Landscape into art

15. Ernst Cassirer

    Author of The Myth of the State, The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy

16. Jonathan Crary

    Author of Techniques of the Observer, Suspensions of Perception

17. Gilles Deleuze

    Author of The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza

18. John Pope-Hennessy

    Author of Italian Gothic sculpture, Raphael, Cellini

19. Nikolaus Pevsner

    Author of An Outline of European Architecture, The Englishness of English Art

20. Daniel Arasse

    Author of On n'y voit rien : Descriptions, Histoires de peintures, Le detail - pour une histoire rapprochee de la peinture