This show, curated by Tim Parks, a British writer based in Italy, and Ludovica Sebregondi, an Italian art historian, considers the influence of 15th-century financiers on Italian art and culture.
Back at the Mogao Caves, another local guide, Liu Qin, an art historian at the Dunhuang Academy, was eager to show us the spot where Warner ripped out the statue.
He avoids jargon in his writing and is an entertaining art historian, as is shown by his popular television series on Spanish and Russian art, and by his weekly art criticism.
Nikolaus Pevsner, who was born in 1902 into a cultured, bourgeois Jewish family in Leipzig, was forced to abandon a promising academic career as an art historian in Göttingen in 1933.
Italian painter, architect, and art historian who wrote Lives of the Most Imminent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors(1550), a history of Renaissance art.
It is acknowledged that the earliest abstraction blow on western esthetics was made by Wilhelm Worringer, a German art historian who is best known for his doctoral thesis, Abstraction and Empathy.
Sir Monty has written a popular appreciation of Rembrandt which Howard Belsey, himself an art historian, though of a more highbrow bent, has denounced for its retrogressive stance.
Although not formally trained as an art historian, he is widely respected for his knowledge of the period.
“Asia is one” was the opening sentenceof a book published just over a century ago by a Japanese art historian calledKakuzo Okakura, entitled “Ideals of the East”.