People

Pietro Toesca

1877-1962, Italian Art Historian and Writer

Professor at the Universities of Turin (1907-14), Florence (1914-26), and Rome (1926-48)

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Giuseppe Tucci

1894-1984, Italian Scholar of Oriental Cultures

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Adolfo Venturi

1856-1941, Italian Art Historian

Chair in Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Rome (1896-1931)

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Charles Vignier

1863-1934, French Poet and Art Collector

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Arthur Waley

1889-1966, British Art Historian

Curator of Oriental Prints at the British Museum
Translator of Japanese and Chinese poetry

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John Walker

1903-1957, American Art Historian

Chief Curator (1939-1956) and Director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1956-1969)
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Langdon Warner

1881-1955, American Archaeologist and Orientalist

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Archibald Gibson Wenley

1898-1962, American Historian of Chinese Art

Director of the Freer Gallery of Art (1943-1962)
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Georges Wildenstein

1892-1963, French Art Dealer, Connoisseur and Art Historian

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Robert Clermont Witt

1872-1952, British Art Amateur and Collector

Founder of the Witt Reference Library, London
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Charles Bierer Wrightsman

1895-1986, American Financier and Art Collector

Married to Jayne Wrightsman, a prominent arts patron in America

Akio Yashiro

1929–1976, Son of Yukio Yashiro

Japanese Composer and Professor of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music... Read more about Akio Yashiro

Fumi Yashiro

1905-1992, Wife of Yukio Yashiro

With her husband, she visited Bernard Berenson at Villa I Tatti in 1956. Depicted in a 1926 sketch by Yukio Yashiro.... Read more about Fumi Yashiro

Itsuji Yoshikawa

1908-2002, Japanese Art Historian

Disciple of Yukio Yashiro and of Henri Focillon
Professor of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and the University of Tokyo
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