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Definition of Art historian
1. Noun. A historian of art.
Specialized synonyms: Erwin Panofsky, Panofsky, Giorgio Vasari, Vasari, Aby Moritz Warburg, Aby Warburg, Warburg, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Johann Winckelmann, Winckelmann
Definition of Art historian
1. Noun. An expert in the history of art. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Art Historian
Literary usage of Art historian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italian Painters: Critical Studies of Their Works by GIOVANNI. MORELLI (1900)
"All that I wish to contend is that the germ of the art- historian, if it exist
at all, can only develop and ripen in the brain of the connoisseur; ..."
2. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"As the research interests of the curator on objects and the academic art historian
in theory have diverged, new programs have been devised to challenge the ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1884)
"Dr. Herman Grimm, art historian; Director Dr. M. Jordan; Prof. G. Spangenberg,
historical painter; A. Von Beckerath, connoisseur and collector, and Prof. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Association of Museums by American Association of Museums (1908)
"... even if it be combined with the modern gallery) must be the point of view of
the art historian. The good art historian is necessarily a good ..."
5. Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movementby Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen by Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen (2002)
"... latter the unique hero for the young art historian.Their dislocation gave
birth to the seminal interpretation ofthe continuity from Morris to Gropius. ..."
6. Henry Adams and His World by David R. Contosta, Robert Muccigrosso (1993)
"Ernest Samuels has noted Berenson's anguished expressions of loss and regret at
the time of Adams's death (1918), as well as the art historian's ..."
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