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Hippolyte Taine

French critic and historian

Linda Nochlin

American art historian

Henri Loyrette

French arts administrator and historian

Horace Walpole

English author

Ernst H. Gombrich

British art historian

Francesco Pasinetti

Italian filmmaker

Heinrich Wölfflin

Swiss historian

Anthony Blunt

British art historian and spy

Donald Kuspit

American art critic and historian

Ernst Kris

psychologist and art historian

Helen Gardner

American art historian and educator

Julius Meier-Graefe

art critic and historian

Philip Hendy

British art historian and curator

Erwin Panofsky

German-American art historian

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner

British art historian

Michael Fried

American critic, art historian, and poet

Alice Van Vechten Brown

American educator