Scholar of Dutch baroque art; professor of History of Art, UC Berkeley,1962-1994; exponent of the "new art history." Born Svetlana Leontief, she graduated from Radcliffe College with a B.A. in 1957. She married the following year, assuming her husband's surname of Alpers. She continued graduate work in art history at Harvard University publishing an article on Vasari's verbal descriptions of art (ekphrasis) in 1960 in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, which announced her innovative approach to art history.

Dutch baroque scholar; art museum director; student of Panofsky. Heckscher was raised in Hamburg, where he attended the University of Hamburg, studying under Erwin Panofsky. Heckscher described his student years in Hamburg as part of a group of deeply dedicated students whose ranks included Horst W. Janson, Walter W. Horn, Ursula Hoff, and Lotte Brand Foerster.

Scholar of the Dutch baroque, Rubens authority.

Dutch baroque scholars, part of a group of graduate students in art history at the University in Berlin, whose numbers included Alexander Dorner, Hans Huth, Erwin Panofsky, and Eberhard Schenk zu Schweinsberg.

Van Dyck scholar, catalogue raisonné author and curator, Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Marie Hendrickx obtained a doctoral degree in Philosophy and Letters in classics (Histoire de l'Antiquité) from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In 1929 she joined the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brussels as an intern. Her appointment as librarian followed in 1931. She worked at the Cabinet des Estampes (Printroom) under curator Louis I. J. J. Lebeer.

Berlin art historian of Dutch Baroque painting. Plietzsch was trained by Wilhelm Bode, director general for all Prussian museums. During the Second World War, Plietzsch assisted the art history-turned-Nazi-art-dealer Kajetan Mühlmann in expertising works of looted art to be sent to the Fuhrermuseum and the art collection of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (1893-1946). Plietzsch's chronology of the works of Gerard ter Borsch were superseded by the work of Sturla Gudlaugsson.

Scholar of the Dutch Baroque painting and costume; editor of the Algemeene kunst geschiedenis. Van Thienen attended high school (Gymnasium) in Delft. He studied art history at Utrecht University, where he obtained his doctor's degree in 1929, under Willem Vogelsang. His dissertation dealt with the history of the costume in Holland between 1600 and 1670, Studien zur Kostümgeschichte der Blütezeit Hollands. After its publication, a broader edition followed in 1930, Das Kostüm der Blütezeit Hollands.

Van Dyck scholar; director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, 1973-. In 1969 he published together with Gert von der Osten the Pelican History of Art volume on Dutch and German renaissance painting. He succeeded Jan Lauts as director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe in 1973.

Scholar of the Dutch renaissance and baroque. His students included Julius Baum and Wilhelm Hausenstein (undergraduate).

Scholar of the Dutch baroque; Warsaw University Professor. Walicki was a curator at the National Museum in Warsaw. In 1950 Walicki was arrested by the Stalinist regime and replaced by Stanislaw Lorentz. His students included Jan Białostocki. His methodology followed a strong connoisseurship model.

Scholar of the Dutch baroque and Director of the Paul Mellon Center, 1973-85. White was the son of Gabriel Edward Ernest Francis White (1902-1988) and Elizabeth Grace Ardizzone (White) (d. 1958). He was educated at the University of London, (BA), an MA at Oxford University, and Ph.D., at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. He joined the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in 1954 as assistant Keeper. In 1957 he married Rosemary Katharine Desages. White became director of the old masters art sales gallery Colnaghi, London, in 1965, remaining there until 1971.

Scholar of Dutch baroque era and director of Staatliche Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden (1924-1941). Zoege von Manteuffel hailed from an aristocratic north-German/Danish family. He was the son of Gunther Zoege von Manteuffel (1850-1926) and Henriette "Rita" Ramm (Zoege von Manteuffel) (1857-1918). He studied jurisprudence and then art history at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Halle. He wrote a dissertation in Antonio Pisano but focused his research career on Flemish artists.