Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

This has been identified by the historian Ronald Hutton, cited in an article by Roger Dearnsley " The Influence of Aleister Crowley on Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical, as a piece of medieval ecclesiastical Latin used to mean " lifting the veil.

Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “ dean of the Impressionist painters ", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also " by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality ”.

Art historian and the artist's great-grandson Joachim Pissarro notes that they “ professed a passionate disdain for the Salons and refused to exhibit at them .” Together they shared an “ almost militant resolution ” against the Salon, and through their later correspondences it is clear that their mutual admiration “ was based on a kinship of ethical as well as aesthetic concerns ”.

Art historian Diane Kelder notes that it was Pissarro who introduced Gauguin, who was then a young stockbroker studying to become an artist, to Degas and Cézanne.

Art historian Bernard Berenson wrote in 1896: " Leonardo is the one artist of whom it may be said with perfect literalness: Nothing that he touched but turned into a thing of eternal beauty.

* Calculations by him of eclipses for eighteen hundred years were inserted in L ' Art de vérifier les dates by Benedictine historian Charles Clémencet ( 1750 )

Art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote about Anguissola that she " has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavors at drawing ; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, coloring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings.

US economic historian Charles P. Kindleberger explained this position in his 1990 book Historical Economics: Art or Science ?.

Art historian John Rowlands sees this work as " one of the most moving portraits in art, from an artist, too, who always characterized his sitters with a guarded restraint ".

* Martin Kemp, Art historian

Art historian Walter J. Friedlander, in The Golden Wand of Medicine: A History of the Caduceus Symbol in Medicine ( 1992 ) collected hundreds of examples of the caduceus and the rod of Asclepius and found that professional associations were just somewhat more likely to use the staff of Asclepius, while commercial organizations in the medical field were more likely to use the caduceus.

Art historian Raymond Cogniat writes that after living and studying art on his own for four years, " Chagall entered into the mainstream of contemporary art.

Art historian and curator James Sweeney notes that when Chagall first arrived in Paris, Cubism was the dominant art form, and French art was still dominated by the " materialistic outlook of the 19th century ".

Art historian Jean Leymarie observes that Chagall began thinking of art as " emerging from the internal being outward, from the seen object to the psychic outpouring ", which was the reverse of the Cubist way of creating.

Art historian Charles Stuckey has compared the viewpoint to that of a distracted spectator at a ballet, and says that " it is Degas ' fascination with the depiction of movement, including the movement of a spectator's eyes as during a random glance, that is properly speaking ' Impressionist '.

His Writings, 1973 – 1983, on Works 1969-1979, co-authored by the art historian Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, was published by The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Of Posidonius's work on tactics, The Art of War, the Greek historian Arrian complained that it was written ' for experts ', which suggests that Posidonius may have had first hand experience of military leadership or, perhaps, utilized knowledge he gained from his acquaintance with Pompey.

Art historian Sivaramamurti calls it " a unique connection of the closely knit ideal of man and woman rising above the craving of the flesh and serving as a symbol of hospitality and parenthood ".

Art historian Robert Hillenbrand ( 1999 ) likens the movement to the foundation of an " Islamic Rome ", because the meeting of Eastern influences from Iranian, Eurasian steppe, Chinese, and Indian sources created a new paradigm for Islamic art.

She started making plans for a Museum of Modern Art in London together with the English art historian

* Geoffrey Howse ( 1955 – present ) actor, local historian and author, was a student at Barnsley School of Art 1973 – 75.

Art historian Ralph Nicholson Wornum estimated that Stothard's designs number five thousand and, of these, about three thousand were engraved.

The art historian Giovanni Lista has classified Futurism by decades: “ Plastic Dynamism ” for the first decade, “ Mechanical Art ” for the 1920s, “ Aeroaesthetics ” for the 1930s.

Art historian, Philip Mould says, " it is about noticing things which have specific characteristics of the artists involved, as opposed to general characteristics of the era ".

Sir Donald Tovey dedicated his conjectural completion of Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge ( Art of the Fugue ) to Schweitzer.

* Sir John Summerson, Architecture in Britain ( series: Pelican History of Art ) Reissued in paperback 1970

File: Sir Joshua Reynolds-Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney-The Archers-Google Art Project. jpg | Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney, The Archers, 1769.

* ' Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius ' exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery-21 November 2009 to 20 February 2010

In a process overseen by a Royal Fine Art Commission under the presidency of Prince Albert, a Select Committee which included Sir Robert Peel started to take witness accounts from experts in 1841.

He was educated at the Liverpool City School of Art, where he acquired the nickname Josh, which comes from having his work compared to that of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

* ' Venus Chiding Cupid for Learning to Cast Accounts ' by Sir Joshua Reynolds at the Lady Lever Art Gallery

*( Thai ) " King Mongkut set up ' secret mission ' disguising Sir John and Anna, hid Laos in Khmer " Art and Culture Magazine

His acting talents were recognised by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

The idea of a National Gallery of British Art was first proposed in the 1820s by Sir John Leicester, Baron de Tabley.

Forty years later Sir Henry Tate who was a sugar magnate and a major collector of Victorian art, offered to fund the building of the gallery to house British Art on the condition that the State pay for the site and revenue costs.

In the 1980s, Sir Roy Strong renamed the museum as ' The Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Museum of Art and Design '.

The Grill Room 1876 – 81 was designed by Sir Edward Poynter, the lower part of the walls consist of blue and white tiles with various figures and foliage enclosed by wood panelling, above there are large tiled scenes with figures depicting the four seasons and the twelve months these were painted by ladies from the Art School then based in the museum, the windows are also stained glass, there is an elaborate cast iron grill still in place.

The final part of the museum designed by Scott was the Art Library and what is now the sculpture gallery on the south side of the garden, built 1877 – 83, the exterior mosaic panels in the parapet were designed by Reuben Townroe who also designed the plaster work in the library, Sir John Taylor designed the book shelves and cases, also this was the first part of the museum to have electric lighting.

In 1857 John Sheepshanks gifted 233 paintings, mainly by contemporary British artists, and a similar number of drawings to the museum with the intention of forming a ' A National Gallery of British Art ', a role since taken on by Tate Britain ; artists represented are William Blake, James Barry, Henry Fuseli, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir David Wilkie, William Mulready, William Powell Frith, Millais and Hippolyte Delaroche.

Image: ISUMBRAS. jpg | Sir Isumbras at the Ford ( 1857 ) Lady Lever Art Gallery

* Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design (" The Cass ")

File: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones-Vespertina Quies-Google Art Project. jpg | Vespertina Quies, 1893

* Sir John Boardman ( archaeologist, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology )

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* Sir Martin Archer Shee-Rhymes on Art

Two visitors to Powell's, Sir William Blake Richmond and FH Richmond RBA, came across some of Spare's drawings, and impressed, they recommended him for a scholarship to the Royal College of Art ( RCA ) in South Kensington.

In February 2005, the Sir Peter Blake Music Art Gallery, located in the School of Music, University of Leeds, was opened by the artist.

An elaborate Life of Sir David Wilkie, by Allan Cunningham, containing the painter's journals and his observant and well-considered " Critical Remarks on Works of Art ", was published in 1843.