Definition of Art historian

1. Noun. A historian of art.


Definition of Art historian

1. Noun. An expert in the history of art. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Art Historian

art dealer
art deco
art department
art director
art editor
art exhibition
art film
art films
art for art's sake
art form
art forms
art galleries
art gallery
art game
art historian
art historians
art history
art house
art houses
art imitates life
art journal
art movement
art movements
art movie
art music
art nouveau
art object
art paper
art rock

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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