It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

In 1496 he executed the Prodigal Son, which the Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari singled out for praise some decades later, noting its Germanic quality.

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.

But Pissarro eventually found their teaching methods “ stifling ,” states art historian John Rewald.

His work has also been described by art historian Diane Kelder as expressing " the same quiet dignity, sincerity, and durability that distinguished his person.

* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine ( d. 1991 )

* 1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian ( d. 1768 )

He met the influential early neoclassical painter Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 1779 ), and through Mengs was introduced to the pathbreaking theories of art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ).

The new style was influenced heavily by the work of art historian Johann Joachim Winkelmann.

* 1922 – Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian ( d. 1977 )

His talent extended beyond the confines of his sculpture to consideration of the setting in which it would be situated ; his ability to synthesise sculpture, painting and architecture into a coherent conceptual and visual whole has been termed by the art historian Irving Lavin the " unity of the visual arts.

" For anarchist historian George Woodcock " Wilde's aim in The Soul of Man under Socialism is to seek the society most favorable to the artist ... for Wilde art is the supreme end, containing within itself enlightenment and regeneration, to which all else in society must be subordinated ... Wilde represents the anarchist as aesthete.

" For anarchist historian George Woodcock " Wilde's aim in The Soul of Man under Socialism is to seek the society most favorable to the artist ... for Wilde art is the supreme end, containing within itself enlightenment and regeneration, to which all else in society must be subordinated ... Wilde represents the anarchist as aesthete.

* 1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, literary critic, and art historian

* 1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian ( d. 1983 )

* John A. Walker ( born 1938 ), British art critic and historian

), Russian art historian

* Peggy L. Schiffer, an art historian and daughter of Dr. Morton A. Schiffer.

The Westernizer artist and art historian Alexandre Benois was one such critic.

" For anarchist historian George Woodcock " Wilde's aim in The Soul of Man under Socialism is to seek the society most favorable to the artist ... for Wilde art is the supreme end, containing within itself enlightenment and regeneration, to which all else in society must be subordinated .... Wilde represents the anarchist as aesthete.

The art historian Giordano Berti has defined him as " the Prince of Labyrinths " due to his ability to create using the refined Trompe-l ' œil technique, a considerable number of absolutely innovative, almost modelled structures.

* Émile Mâle ( 1862 – 1954 ), French art historian

Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler ( 29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936 ) was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

The interior of the Pantheon ( Rome ) by Giovanni Paolo Pannini, ordered by and belonging to the art collection of Algarotti.

Isabella was also a talented singer and musician, and was taught to play the lute by Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa In addition to all these admirable accomplishments, she also was an innovator of new dances, having been instructed in the art by Ambrogio, a Jewish dancing master.

In addition to playing music, she collected art, and sponsored philosophers, poets, and painters, such as Titian, Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, and Leonardo Da Vinci.

** Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art ( d. 1643 )

* December 30 – Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art ( b. 1566 )

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

This gave the landscape background an importance which marks an innovation in Venetian art, and was quickly followed by his master Giovanni Bellini and others.

The monotype process was invented by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ( 1609-64 ), an Italian painter and etcher who was also the first artist to produce brushed sketches intended as finished and final works of art ( rather than as studies for another work ).

The notorious fake antique fresco of Jupiter and Ganymede, tailored to deceive Winckelmann has been attributed to Mengs or Giovanni CasanovaWith the aid of his new friend, the painter Anton Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 79 ), with whom he first lived in Rome, Winckelmann devoted himself to the study of Roman antiquities and gradually acquired an unrivalled knowledge of ancient art.

* 1998: Don Giovanni by Mozart, création au 50ème Festival international d ' art lyrique d ' Aix-en-Provence

* Large scale integrated circuits technology: state of the art and prospects: proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on " Large Scale Integrated Circuits Technology: State of the Art and Prospects ," Erice, Italy, July 15 – 27, 1981 / edited by Leo Esaki and Giovanni Soncini ( 1982 )

The building was designed by Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Lapadula and Mario Romano, also inspired by Metaphysical art.

In 1890, Giovanni Morelli wrote, " art connoisseurs say of art historians that they write about what they do not understand ; art historians, on their side, disparage the connoisseurs, and only look upon them as the drudges who collect materials for them, but who personally have not the slightest knowledge of the physiology of art.

* Giovanni Lista, " De la chromogonie de Boccioni à l ' art spatial de Fontana ", in Ligeia, dossiers sur l ' art, n ° 77-78-79-80, juillet-décembre 2007, Paris.

Italian art historian Giovanni Carandente directed the 1988 and 1990 editions.

* Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo ( currently closed for renovations ), the municipal art gallery ; it hosts works of the painters of the classical Brescian school, Romanino, Bonvicino, and Bonvicino's pupil, Giovanni Battista Moroni.

As his practice prospered, Soane was able to collect objects worthy of the British Museum, including the alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I, covered in Egyptian hieroglyphs, discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, bought on the 12 May 1824 for £ 2000 ( Soane's most expensive art work ).