historian, historiographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

Erwin Panofsky, Panofsky - art historian (1892-1968)

Giorgio Vasari, Vasari - Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574)

Aby Moritz Warburg, Aby Warburg, Warburg - German art historian (1866-1929)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Johann Winckelmann, Winckelmann - German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768)