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Women were professionally active in the academic discipline of art history already in the nineteenth century and participated in the important shift early in the century that began involving an "emphatically corporeal visual subject", with Vernon Lee as a notable example.

Notable women art historians

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Name Nationality Birth date Specialization Profession
Phyllis|Ackerman}} American 1893–1977 Persian art, Chinese art, textiles, tapestries Co-founder of Asia Institute, author, interior design
Maryan|Ainsworth}} American 14th, 15th and 16th century Northern European painting, particularly in Early Netherlandish painting Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery in Washington DC.<ref>Cite web|url=https://www.codart.nl/personal/maryan-ainsworth-appointed-as-kress-beinecke-professor-at-the-center-for-advanced-study-in-the-visual-arts-in-washington/|title=Maryan Ainsworth Appointed Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington -|date=2018-08-15|website=CODART|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref> She is also a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Svetlana|Alpers}}<ref name=":2" /> American b. 1936 Dutch Golden Age Painting Art historian
Mouza Sulaiman Mohamed|Al-Wardi}} Oman Silversmithing from Oman Director of the Collections Department at the National Museum (Oman).
Amalia|Amaki}} American b. 1949 American art Artist, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa from 2007 to 2012.<ref>Cite web|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/amalia-amaki-41|title=Amalia Amaki !}} The HistoryMakers|website=www.thehistorymakers.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-21}}</ref>
Clementina|Anstruther-Thomson}} Scottish 1857–1921 Experimental aesthetics during the Victorian era Author, art theorist, art critic
Paola|Antonelli}} Italian b. 1963 Modern Art, design Curator
Irina|Antonova}} Soviet, Russian 1922–2020 Impressionist art, modern art Director of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow from 1961 to 2013.
Mildred|Archer}} English 1911–2005 18th- and 19th-century art in British India
Caroline|Arscott}} English Victorian art, 19th century art Art historian
Muqadamma|Ashrafi}} Tajikistani 1936–2013 Medieval arts and painting of Central Asia Author, researcher
Dore|Ashton}} American 1928–2017 Modern Art, contemporary Art Writer, professor, art critic
Pamela|Askew}} American 1925–1997 Domenico Fetti and Caravaggio Professor
Nurhan|Atasoy}} Turkish b. 1934 Ottoman art and architecture Art historian
Erna|Auerbach}} German 1897–1975 Tudor period in England, feminist art Author
Myrtilla|Avery}} American 1869–1959 Medieval art Professor, a Monuments men, former chair of Department of Art at Wellesley College and director of the Farnsworth Art Museum from 1930–1937.
Sussan|Babaie}} Iranian b. 1954 Persian art, Islamic art of the early modern period Professor at The Courtauld Institute of Art, art historian, writer
Barbara|Baert}} Belgian b. 1967 Medieval iconology Art historian
Mieke|Bal}} Dutch b. 1946 Modern Art, Contemporary Art Cultural theorist, video artist
Anna|Banti}} Italian 1895–1985 Italian Baroque, female artists Writer, art historian, art critic, translator
Luisa|Banti}} Italian 1894–1978 Etruscan art Archaeologist, art historian, writer
Jeannine|Baticle}} French 1920–2014 Spanish art Former Honorary Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Department of Paintings of the Louvre museum.
Ruth|Barnes}} English b. 1956 Material culture, South and Southeast Asian Textiles Art historian, curator
Leila Cook|Barber}} American 1903–1984 Renaissance art and Medieval art Art historian, professor of art history at Vassar College.
Wendy|Beckett}} (aka 'Sister Wendy') English 1930–2018 Catholic art Art historian, Catholic nun
Ellen|Beer}} Swiss 1926–2004 Medieval art Art historian, professor
Lottlisa|Behling}} German 1909–1989 Medieval art Art historian, professor
Mary|Berenson}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/berensonm |title=Mary Berenson |website=Dictionary of Art Historians |access-date=2018-11-06 |archive-date=2019-05-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513180444/http://arthistorians.info/berensonm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>cite web |url=http://itatti.harvard.edu/content/mary-berenson |title=Mary Berenson |date=2013 |website=Villa I Tatti }}</ref> American 1864–1945 Italian Renaissance Art historian, lecturer
Laurence Bertrand|Dorléac}} French b. 1957 Modern and contemporary Art historian, professor, curator
Margarete|Bieber}}<ref>cite web|url=http://arthistorians.info/bieberm |title=Margarete Bieber |publisher=Dictionary of Art Historians |access-date=2014-05-24}}</ref> German 1879–1978 Theatre, sculpture, and clothing of ancient Rome and Greece Art historian, professor
Gertrud|Bing}} German 1892–1964 Classical tradition Director of the Warburg Institute<ref>cite web|url=http://arthistorians.info/bingg|title=Gertrud Bing; Gertrude Bing|publisher=Dictionary of Art Historians|access-date=2014-05-24}}</ref>
Shirley Neilsen|Blum}}<ref name=":42">cite web|title=Blum, Shirley|url=http://arthistorians.info/blums|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331040206/http://arthistorians.info/blums|archive-date=March 31, 2018|access-date=March 2, 2021|publisher=Dictionary of Art Historians|quote=the couple (Hopps), along with the artist Edward Kienholz founded the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1957.}}</ref> American b. 1932 Northern Renaissance art, early Netherlandish art, and modern art. Art historian, author, gallerist, co-founder of Ferus Gallery, and professor emeritus at the State University of New York, Purchase (1970–1989).
Phyllis Pray|Bober}}<ref name=":12">Cite web|title=Bober, Phyllis Pray|url=https://arthistorians.info/boberp|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-03|website=The Dictionary of Art Historians}}</ref> American 1920–2002 Renaissance art, classical antiquity, culinary history Author, professor emerita at Bryn Mawr College.<ref name=":02">Cite news|last=Cotter|first=Holland|date=2002-06-15|title=Phyllis Bober, 81, Scholar; Specialized in Renaissance Art (Published 2002)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/arts/phyllis-bober-81-scholar-specialized-in-renaissance-art.html|access-date=2021-03-03|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Jean Sutherland|Boggs}} <ref>cite web|url=http://arthistorians.info/boggsj |title=Jean Sutherland Boggs |publisher=Dictionary of Art Historians |date=1966-08-07 |access-date=2014-05-24}}</ref> Canadian b. 1922 Nineteenth-century French art, Degas Curator, art historian, and first female director of the National Gallery of Canada
Alice|Boner}} Swiss 1889–1981 Indian symbols in art history Art historian focused on symbols in Indian art, also an artist
Evelina|Borea}} Italian b. 1931 Italian art history Author, curator
Norma|Broude}} American b. 1941 Impressionism and feminist art history Art historian, Author and emerita professor at American University
Frances|Borzello}} English Feminist art history including; social history of art, female portraiture, and female nudes. Author, scholar, feminist art critic
Adelyn Dohme|Breeskin}} American 1896–1986 Mary Cassatt Curator, museum director, and art historian at Baltimore Museum of Art
Anita|Brookner}} English b. 1936 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jacques-Louis David Author, Slade professor of fine art at Cambridge University,<ref>cite web|url=http://arthistorians.info/brooknera|title=Dictionary of Art Historians|publisher=Dictionary of Art Historians|access-date=2014-05-24}}</ref> her early work focused on art history and later work was fiction novels
Lillian|Browse}} English 1906–2005 Augustus John, Edgar Degas, James Dickson Innes Art dealer, art historian
Coosje van|Bruggen}} Dutch, American 1942–2009 Dutch avant-garde art url=http://arthistorians.info/bruggenc|title=Dictionary of Art Historians|publisher=Dictionary of Art Historians|access-date=2014-05-24}}</ref>
Palma|Bucarelli}} Italian 1910–1998 avant-garde art Director of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM) from 1942 to 1975, art critic
Anneliese|Bulling}} German, American 1900–2004 Sinologist, Chinese art and architecture Art lecturer, art historian
Andrianna|Campbell}} American Nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, Norman Lewis, Abstract Expressionism Art historian, curator
Taína|Caragol}} American Latino Art Curator for Latino Art and History at the National Portrait Gallery, author
Teresa Gisbert|Carbonell}} Bolivian b. 1926 Andean art history Art historian
Mary Ann|Caws}} American b. 1933 Modern Art, contemporary art Author, literary critic, art historian
Whitney|Chadwick}} American b. 1943 Feminist art critic, contemporary art, modernism, Surrealism, gender and sexuality Author, Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University
Sheng-Ching|Chang}} Taiwanese b. 1963 Chinese art history and cultural interactions Professor at Fu Jen Catholic University, journalist, writer
Betty|Churcher}} Australian 1931–2015 url=http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1409/Churcher-Betty.aspx|title=Churcher, Betty, AO AM FAHA|date=1999-02-22|publisher=Humanities.org.au|access-date=2014-05-24}}</ref>
Lourdes|Cirlot}} Spanish b. 1949 Spanish and Catalan avant-garde art, 20-century art
Alessandra|Comini}} American b. 1934 American women artists, Egon Schiele's portraiture Academic lecturer, writer, a founder of the Women’s Caucus for Art
Mildred|Constantine}} American 1913–2008 Poster Art, graphic design Art historian and curator at Museum of Modern Art in the 1950s and 1960s
Lynne|Cooke}} Australian b. 1952 Modern art, contemporary art Curator
Julie|Crooks}} Canadian Curator, head of the department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Anne|Crookshank}} Irish 1927–2016 Irish painting Professor emeritus at Trinity College Dublin.
Rosemary|Crumlin}} Australian b. 1932 Indigenous Australian art, religious art Author, Sister of Mercy
Alissandra|Cummins}} Barbadian b. 1958 Caribbean art Director of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society; lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of the West Indies.
Parisa|Damandan}} Iranian b. 1967 20th century Iranian photography Author, historian
Mirella Levi|D'Ancona}} American, Italian 1919–2002 Symbolism and iconography in art from the Late Middle Ages period to the Renaissance Professor emeritus at Hunter College, author, art historian.
Félicie|d'Ayzac}} French 1801–1881 Chartres Cathedral Author, poet, archaeology, one of the first female art historians in France.
Cécile|Debray}} French b. 1966 modern painting, contemporary painting Director of the Musée de l'Orangerie
Élisabeth|Décultot}} French b. 1968 Germanist, German Enlightenment Literary scholar
Vidya|Dehejia}} Indian Indian and South Asian art Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University.
Rocio|de la Villa}} Spanish b. 1959 Spanish feminist art, contemporary art Curator, university professor, president of Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts,<ref>Cite news|url=http://masdearte.com/rocio-de-la-villa-presidenta-de-la-sociedad-espanola-de-estetica-y-teoria-de-las-artes/|title=Rocío de la Villa, Presidenta de la Sociedad Española de Estética y Teoría de las Artes|date=2013-12-27|work=masdearte. Información de exposiciones, museos y artistas|access-date=2017-11-12|language=es-ES}}</ref> a co-founders of Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV)
Sirarpie|Der Nersessian}} Armenian 1896–1989 Armenian art, Byzantine art Professor at Wellesley College, Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks.
Laurence|des Cars}} French b. 1966 Pre-Raphaelites, English painting Director of the Louvre Museum; former director of Musée d'Orsay, and Musée de l'Orangerie.
Yvonne|Deslandres}} French 1923–1986 Costume, adornment
Catherine|de Zegher}} Belgium b. 1955 Contemporary art Curator and art historian
Jasleen|Dhamija}} Indian b. 1933 Indian textile history, Indian craft history Professor at University of Minnesota and National Institute of Fashion Technology.
Elisabeth|Dhanens}} Belgian 1915–2014 Early Netherlandish painting Heritage official
Anne|d'Harnoncourt}} American 1943–2008 Marcel Duchamp Curator and director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Kamala|Dongerkery}} Indian 1909–1992 Indian embroidery, Indian jewelry, Indian toys Social worker, art historian, author, cultural historian
Saryu|Doshi}} Indian Indian miniature paintings, Jain art Founding director of the National Gallery of Modern Art.
Layla S.|Diba}} Iranian, American 18th/19th-century and contemporary Persian art and the Qajar period Iranian-American independent scholar and curator.
Leah|Dickerman}} American Modern art, Contemporary art Curator, art historian
Emilia|Dilke}} English 1840–1904 18th-century French art url=http://arthistorians.info/dilkee |title=Lady Dilke; Emilia Francis Strong; Emily Francis Strong; Mrs Mark Pattison |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref>
Elizabeta|Dimitrova}} Macedonian b. 1962 Byzantinist, medievalists
Lydia|Durnovo}} Soviet, Russian 1885 –1963 Russian painting, Armenian miniatures, Armenian frescoes Staff of the National Gallery of Armenia
Sharada|Dwivedi}} Indian 1942–2012 Indian art and architecture history Author of Indian and Mumbaiart and architecture history books
Joan Evans English 1893–1977 French and English mediaeval art Art historian
Constance Jocelyn|Ffoulkes}} British 1858–1950 Italian Scholar, she participated in the adoption of a modernization of European methods of research.
Judith V.|Field}} British b. 1943 Geometrical art, mathematical art Scholar, mathematician, research fellow in the Department of History of Art of Birkbeck, University of London
Margaret Henderson|Floyd}} American 1932–1997 Boston architecture including Henry Hobson Richardson, and Longfellow, Alden and Harlow. Professor of Architectural History at Tufts University.
Marian Lopez|Fernandez-Cao}} Spanish b. 1964 Spanish feminist art, contemporary art, and the works of Sonia Delaunay University professor and researcher, former president of Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV)
María Concepción García|Gainza}} Spanish b. 1937 Contemporary art, Spanish Renaissance
Helen|Gardner|Helen Gardner (art historian)}} American 1878–1946 Author of Art Through the Ages, an art history textbook
Mary|Garrard}} American b. 1940 Italian Baroque art and feminist art history Art historian, Author, emerita professor at American University
Catherine|Gonnard}} French b. 1958 Women, gender and art Art historian, journalist, writer, activist
Antje von|Graevenitz}} German b. 1940 20th and 21st-century art Art historian, art critic
Catherine|Grenier}} French Alberto Giacometti Director of the Giacometti Foundation.<ref>Cite web|last=Hurwitz|first=Laurie|date=2014-12-18|title=Giacometti’s Legacy|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/alberto-giacometti-catalogue-raisonne-and-institut-giacometti-3307/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-23|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref>
Tapati|Guha-Thakurta}} Indian b. 1957 Indian art of the 19th and 20th century Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
Navina Najat|Haidar}} Indian, British Islamic art Chief curator of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Paula|Harper}} American 1930–2012 Feminist art, Camille Pissarro, contemporary art Art historian, art critic, art lecturer, author
Liesbeth|Heenk}} Dutch b. 1962 Vincent van Gogh
Hayden|Herrera}}<ref name=":2">Cite web|last=Recinos|first=Eva|date=2017-03-16|title=Influential Female Art Historians You Should Know|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-influential-female-art-historians|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Artsy|language=en}}</ref> American b. 1940 Frida Kahlo, Arshile Gorky, Joan Snyder Art historian, author, foremost scholar on Kahlo.
Lubaina|Himid}} English b. 1954 Contemporary art, United Kingdom’s Black Art movement Professor, curator
Ursula|Hoff}} German, Australian 1909–2005 Australian art, the works of Rembrandt Scholar, academic, curator, author, critic, and lecturer. Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1968–1973); London Adviser of the Felton Bequest (1975–83).
Meike|Hoffmann}} German b. 1962 Die Brücke art movement, German art history Provenance researcher, author
Stina|Högkvist}} Swedish b. 1972 Curator, Director of Collections at National Museum, in Oslo, Norway
Candice|Hopkins}} Carcross/Tagish First Nation b. 1977 Indigenous art history Independent curator, writer, and researcher.
Michael Ann|Holly}} American Historiography of art history Art historian
Agnès|Humbert}} French 1894–1963 French art, Louis David, Henri Matisse Art historian, ethnographer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Heather|Igloliorte}} Inuit b. 1979 Indigenous art history
Alice Ming Wai|Jim}} Canadian Contemporary Asian art, contemporary Asian Canadian art, remix culture Professor, art historian, curator
Kellie|Jones}}<ref name=":1">Cite web|last=Recinos|first=Eva|date=2017-03-16|title=Influential Female Art Historians You Should Know|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-influential-female-art-historians|access-date=2021-03-02|website=Artsy|language=en}}</ref> American b. 1959 African-American art and artists Professor, curator, MacArthur Fellow
Amelia|Jones}} American b. 1961 Dada, Feminist art, Performance art, Body art Art historian, art theorist, curator, author, university professor, art critic
Deborah|Kahn}} American b. 1953 European Medieval art and architecture, Canterbury Cathedral Professor, author
Geeta|Kapur}} Indian b. 1943 Indian contemporary art
Ebba Koch Austrian Indian art history, Mughal-era (architecture, gardens, painting, applied arts), and connecting imperial symbolism. Professor at the Institute of Art History in Vienna, Austria.
Charlotte|Klonk}} German Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Museology Art historian
Stella|Kramrisch}} Austrian 1896–1993 Indian art of the 20th-century Professor, curator
Rosalind|Krauss}} American b. 1941 20th-century painting, sculpture and photography Author, associate editor of Artforum from 1971 to 1974, professor at Columbia University
Annette|Kuhn}} English b. 1945 Feminist film theory, visual culture, cultural memory Author, researcher, historian
Miwon|Kwon}} Korean b.1961 Contemporary art, site-specific art, land art
Ewa|Lajer-Burcharth}} Polish 18th and 19th century European, contemporary art, feminist and critical theory, Jacques-Louis David Professor at Harvard University.
Lynne|Lawner}} American Renaissance Author, scholar, historian with an emphasis on iconographical themes, the meaning of art, as well as social customs.
Élisabeth|Lebovici}} French b. 1953 Contemporary art, feminist art, Queer art, Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero, Queer theory scholar, art historian, author, writer
Annette|Lemieux}} American b. 1957 Contemporary art Professor, artist
Amelia Sarah|Levetus}} English, Austrian 1853–1938 Modern art Author, cultural journalist
Samella|Lewis}} American b. 1924 African-American art Art historian, art critic, and printmaker
Lucy|Lippard}}<ref name=":1" /> American b. 1937 Contemporary art Art critic, curator
Marcella|Lista}} French 20th Century art Chief curator at the Centre Pompidou.
Catherine|Mason}} Australian, English Computer art, digital art Art historian
Jennifer|Montagu}} English b. 1931 Italian Baroque sculpture Art historian
Doula|Mouriki}} Greek 1934–1991 Byzantinologist, Historian of Art Professor
Claudia|Müller-Ebeling}} German b. 1956 Healing arts, shamanism Author
Laura|Mulvey}} English b. 1941 Feminist film theory feminist film theorist, professor at Birkbeck, University of London
Joanna|Mytkowska}} Polish b. 1970 Contemporary art Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, curator, art critic
Mika|Natif}} Israeli Islamic painting: Central Asia, Iran, India, and the Mediterranean Art historian
Linda|Nochlin}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/nochlinl |title=Linda Nochlin |publisher=Dictionary of Art Historians |access-date=2014-05-24 |archive-date=2020-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126212857/http://arthistorians.info/nochlinl |url-status=dead }}</ref> American 1931–2017 Feminist art history Art historian
Elizabeth|Norton}} English Tudor period, queens of England Author, specializing in archaeology and anthropology.
Nana|Oforiatta Ayim}} Ghanaian Pan-African art Art historian, writer, and filmmaker.
Lotte Brand|Philip}} German 1910–1986
Michèle|Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens}} French 1934–2018 Chinese objects
Heleni|Polichronatou}} Greek b. 1959 Contemporary public art, land art
Griselda|Pollock}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/pollockg |title=Griselda Pollock |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> English, Canadian b. 1949
Elizabeth|Prettejohn}} American b. 1961 Victorian Art, Pre-Raphaelites Art historian, Professor, curator, author
Nancy|Princenthal}} American b. 1955 Shirin Neshat, Doris Salcedo, Robert Mangold, Alfredo Jaar, Jackie Ferrara, Joyce Kozloff, Hannah Wilke, Agnes Martin Artist biographer, writer
Dragana Lucija|Ratković Aydemir}} Croatian b. 1969 Croatian museums
Arlene|Raven}} American 1944–2006 Feminist art movement in the United States Art historian, art critic, and founder of the Los Angeles Woman's Building
Hilla|Rebay}} German, American 1890–1967 Modern art Co-founder and first director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, abstract artist, art collector
Günsel|Renda}} Turkish Ottoman art Professor
Trina|Robbins}} American b. 1938 History of comics Artist and writer
Barbara|Rose}} American 1936–2020
Anda|Rottenberg}} Polish b. 1944
Kim|Sajet}} Netherlands Museum director of the National Portrait Gallery.
Bénédicte|Savoy}} French b. 1972 Modern art, looted art Professor at Technical University of Berlin
Bente|Scavenius}} Danish b. 1944 Danish art history Independent scholar, art critic, and author
Véronique|Schiltz}} French 1942–2019 Scythian art in the first millennium BCE and the first millennium CE Archaeologist, art historian, and literary translator.
Johanna|Schopenhauer}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/schopenhauerj |title=Johanna Henrietta Schopenhauer |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> German 1766–1838 Artist, author
Nada|Shabout}}<ref name=":2" /> American b. 1962 Modern Iraqi art Art historian
Kaja|Silverman}} American b. 1947 Film theorist, art historian
Alessandra|Silvestri-Levy}} Brazilian Producer and writer
Anna|Spitzmüller}} Austrian 1903-2001 Art historian, curator
Barbara Maria|Stafford}} American b. 1941 Developments in imaging arts, optical sciences, and performance technologies Art historian, researcher
Nina Howell| Starr}} American 1903–2000 American roadside attractions, American folk art, Outsider artists title=Biographical Note from A Finding Aid to the Nina Howell Starr papers, 1933-1996|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/nina-howell-starr-papers-6053/biographical-note|website=Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution|language=en|access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref>
Kate|Steinitz}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/steinitzk |title=Kate Steinitz; Kate Traumann Steinitz |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> German, American 1889–1975 Artist, art historian
Klara|Steinweg}} German 1903–1972 Italian Renaissance Art historian, co-author of the book series Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting.
Kristine|Stiles}} American b. 1947 Art historian, curator
Margaret|Stokes}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/stokesm |title=Margaret Stokes |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> Irish 1832–1900 Antiquarian
Marilyn|Stokstad}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/stokstadm |title=Marilyn Stokstad |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> American 1929–2016 Medieval and Spanish art Art historian, professor, author
Z. S.|Strother}} American 20th and 21st-century Central and West African art history Professor of African Art at Columbia University
Deborah|Swallow}} English b. 1948 Indian art history Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art since 2004.
Mary Hamilton|Swindler}} <ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/swindlerm |title=Swindler, Mary Hamilton |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> American 1884–1967 Ancient classical painting Archeologist, professor
Ann|Temkin}} American b. 1959 Curator American painting and sculpture
Dorothy Burr|Thompson}} <ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/thompsond |title=Dorothy Burr Thompson |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> American 1900–2001
Erica|Tietze-Conrat}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/tietzee |title=Erica Tietze-Conrat; Erika Tietze-Conrat |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> Austrian, American 1883–1958 Contemporary Viennese Art, Renaissance art, the Venetian school Academic lecturer
Marjorie|Tipping}}<ref>cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0301b.htm |title=Tipping, Marjorie Jean (1917 - 2009) |work=The Australia Women's Register |publisher=Australia Women's Archives Project |access-date=2014-05-25}}</ref> Australian 1917–2009 Historian
Jocelyn|Toynbee}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/toynbeej |title=Jocelyn Toynbee, J.M.C. Toynbee |website=Dictionary of Art Historians |access-date=2018-11-06 |archive-date=2019-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608173354/http://arthistorians.info/toynbeej |url-status=dead }}</ref> English 1897–1985
Rachida|Triki}} Tunisian b. 1949 North African art Professor at Tunis University.
Marcia|Tucker}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/tuckerm |title=Tucker, Marcia, née Silverman |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> American 1940–2006
Eleanor|Tufts}} American 1927–1991 American women artists, works by Luis Egidio Meléndez Academic lecturer, writer
Georgiana|Uhlyarik}} Romanian b. 1972 Indigenous Canadian art, women artists Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
Rose|Valland}} French 1898–1980 Commission for the Recovery of Works of Art (during WWII)
G. T.|van Ysselsteyn}} Dutch 1892–1975 Dutch textile history
Kapila|Vatsyayan}} Indian 1928–2020 Indian art
Emily|Vermeule}} American 1928–2001 Ancient Greek art, Mycenaean culture url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/23/arts/emily-vermeule-72-a-scholar-of-bronze-age-archaeology.html|title=Emily Vermeule, 72, a Scholar Of Bronze Age Archaeology|last=Honan|first=William H.|author-link=William H. Honan|date=2001-02-23|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-12-17|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Cecylia|Vetulani}} Polish 1908–1980
Anne|Wagner}} American b. 1949 Modern and contemporary art Art historian, professor emerita
Renate|Wagner-Rieger}} <ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/wagnerriegerr|title=Wagner-Rieger, Renate [née Rieger] |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> Austrian 1921–1980 Architecture, historicism Academic lecturer
Charlotte|Weidler}} German 1895–1983 German expressionism Art dealer, curator, and she held a pivotal role in bringing major works of Germany to the United States; resulting restitution claims concerning the collections of Paul Westheim and Alfred Flechtheim.
Evelyn|Welch}} American b. 1959 Renaissance and early modern Art historian, professor
Edith|Wharton}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/whartone |title=Wharton, Edith [née Newbold Jones, Edith] |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> American 1862–1937 Architecture Writer
Margaret|Whinney}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/whinneym |title=Whinney, Margaret [Dickens] |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> English 1897–1975 English art history Academic lecturer
Zoé|Whitley}} American, English 1979 Contemporary art, United Kingdom’s Black Art movement, African diaspora Curator, museum director
Diana|Widmaier Picasso}} French b. 1974 Modern art, old master drawings Curator, author, gallerist
Sylvia|Williams}} American 1936–1996 African art Curator, museum director
Deborah|Willis (artist)}} <ref name=":2" /> American 1948 African American and Black photographers Curator, author, photographer, educator
Sarah|Wilson|Sarah Wilson (art historian)}} English Pierre Klossowski, Henri Matisse, Post-structuralism Professor at Courtauld Institute, author
Juliet|Wilson–Bareau}} English b. 1935 Francisco Goya, Édouard Manet Art historian, scholar, professor at University of Oxford.
Rachel|Wischnitzer}} German 1885–1989 Jewish art Architect, professor, author, art historian
Margot|Wittkower}} German, American 1902–1995 Neo-Palladian Architecture, Italian Renaissance, Baroque Writer, Interior Design
Joanna|Woodall}} English b. 1956 Portraiture, Netherlandish Art
Mary|Woodall}} English 1901–1988 Thomas Gainsborough scholar Museum director, curator
Frances|Yates}}<ref>cite web |url=http://arthistorians.info/yatesf |title=Yates, Frances [Amelia], Dame |website=Dictionary of Art Historians }}</ref> English 1899–1981 Renaissance
Stefania|Zahorska}} Polish 1890–1961 Polish prosaist
Hilde|Zaloscer}} Austrian 1903–1999 Coptic Art Art historian, professor at University of Alexandria and Carleton University Ottawa.
Marie-Cécile|Zinsou}} French, Beninese b. 1982 Contemporary art in Africa President of Fondation Zinsou and in 2014 she found the Museum of Contemporary Art in Benin, the first museum of art in the country.
Rebecca|Zorach}} American b. 1969 Early modern European, contemporary Art historian, professor



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