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- Dictionary of Art Historians - Online biographical dictionary of major art historians in the world. Includes bibliography on works by the historian as well as works about his/her life.
- Weisberg, Gabriel P. - Art Historian Gabriel P. Weisberg's work focuses on themes affecting French art from the middle of the nineteenth century until World War I.
- Association of Art Historians - The AAH represents the interests of art and design historians in all aspects of the discipline, including art, design, architecture, photography, film and other media, cultural studies, conservation and museum studies.
- College Art Association - Publishes two journals in art and art history as well as an electronic reviews journal, a listing of employment for artists, art historians, and other arts professionals.
- Lawner, Lynne - Articles, biography, publications and lectures by an Italian poet and art historian.
- Artology - Articles, publications and biography of English art critic and historian John A. Walker.
- Fine Art Touch - Devoted to the exploration of Italian Renaissance Art. It is owned by Brenda Harness, an art historian writing about a variety of art related topics.
- Bowles, Gerald - Art history professor provides his syllabi, suggested reading list and other teaching tools and information.
- William Laffan - Art historian, art dealer, writer and curator based between London and Dublin. His expertise is in the fields of Old master drawings and Irish art.
- The Engineer Behind Calder's Art - An art historian investigates the technical grounding of the sculptor's imagination. Article in 'Mechanical Engineering' magazine by By Joan M. Marter.
Wikipedia Articles
- Post-Impressionism - Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1914, to describe the development of European art since Monet (Impressionism). John Rewald, one of the first professional art historians to focus on the birth of early modern art, limited the scope to the years between 1886 and 1892 in his pioneering publication on Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin (1956): Rewald considered it ...
- Painterly - Painterly is a translation of the German term malerisch, one of the opposed categories popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864 - 1945) in order to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize works of art. The opposite character is linear, plastic or formal linear design.
- Edgar Wind - Edgar Wind (14 May1900 Berlin, Germany-12 September 1971 London, United Kingdom) was an interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era. He was a member of the school of art historians associated with Aby Warburg and the Warburg Institute as well as the first Professor of art history at Oxford University.
- Slanguage Art Collective - Slanguage is a space and artist collective in Los Angeles, California founded by Mario Ybarra and Juan Capistran, working with community artists, curators and historians on many projects and workshops.
- Albert Pinkham Ryder - Albert Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of color with tonalist works of the time, it was unique for accentuating form in a way that some art historians regard as modernist.