Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule (August 11, 1928 – February 6, 2001) served as the Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray -Stone Radcliffe Professor at Harvard between 1970 and 1994. She received an undergraduate degree in Greek and philosophy from...
John Kinder Gowran Shearman (24 June 1931 – 11 August 2003) served as William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts between 1987-2002. He was a specialist in Italian Renaissance painting, described by his colleague James S. Ackerman as "the leading...
Ernst Kitzinger (December 27, 1912 – January 22, 2003) was a German-American historian of late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine art.
Kitzinger entered the University of Munich in 1931, where he studied the history of art, principally under Wilhelm...
Frank Fehrenbach studied art history, history and philosophy in Tübingen and Basel, was a fellow in the working group on the cultural history of nature at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen from 1992 to 1995, and received his doctorate in 1995...
James Cuno currently serves the J. Paul Getty Trust as president and CEO. A national and international museum leader and scholar, Cuno was president and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago before joining the Getty in 2011. Prior to...
Paul Joseph Sachs (November 24, 1878 – February 17, 1965) served as Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard between 1927 to 1948, and as Associate Director of the Fogg Art Museum between 1909 and 1945.
Sachs began lecturing in art history from 1916 to 1917 at...
Max Loehr (December 4, 1903 - September 16, 1988) earned his Ph.D. in Far Eastern art from the University of Munich in 1936. Afterward, he became an assistant in charge of the Asiatic collections for the Museum Five Continents (Museum Fünf Kontinente...
John P. Coolidge (December 16, 1913 - July 31, 1995) was an architectural historian at Harvard and Director of the Fogg Art Museum.
In 1940, he participated in the founding of the Society of Architectural Historians, initiated by Kenneth Conant, and was...