David Gordon Mitten (October 26, 1935— January 18, 2022) became emeritus in January 2010. In his career at Harvard, he was George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, Emeritus, Harvard University Art Museums, a full member of the Department of History...
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...
Agnes Mongan (January 21, 1905 – September 15, 1996) was an American art historian, who served as both curator and director for the Harvard Art Museums In 1927, she received a B.A. in art history and english literature from Bryn Mawr College. She...
James Ackerman (November 8, 1919 – December 31, 2016) was born in San Francisco in November 1919. He studied at the Cate School in Carpinteria, California, graduating in 1937 before attending Yale University. At Yale, 1938–41, he came under the influence...
Professor Seymour Slive (September 15, 1920 – June 14, 2014) taught at Harvard for thirty-seven years, chaired the Department of Fine Arts from 1968 to 1971, and directed the Fogg Museum from 1974 to 1982. He is most known for his work on the great...
Professor Benjamin Rowland (December 2, 1904 - October 3, 1972), served as Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard between 1950 - 1972. Rowland attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. The remainder of his degrees and teaching were exclusively at...
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...
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...
Cyril Mango (14 April 1928 – 8 February 2021) was a British scholar of the history, art, and architecture of the Byzantine Empire and celebrated as one of the leading Byzantinists of the 20th century. Born in Constantinople in 1928, he was educated at...