art historian

English

Noun

art historian (plural art historians)

1. An expert in art history.
   • 2025 January 3, Christina Izzo, “Cunk On Life is brilliantly funny (and depressingly timely)”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     When Cunk critiques “What the fuck is this?” while standing in front of an art historian and Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Triumph of Death, she might as well be a TikTok user complaining about the “point” of contemporary art.

Translations

an expert in art history

• Arabic: مُؤَرِّخ الفَنّ m (muʔarriḵ al-fann), مُؤَرِّخة الفَنّ f (muʔarriḵa(t) al-fann)
• Armenian: արվեստի պատմաբան (arvesti patmaban)
• Basque: artearen historialari
• Belarusian: гісторык мастацтва m (históryk mastactva)
• Bulgarian: историк на изкуството m (istorik na izkustvoto)
• Catalan: historiador de l'art m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藝術史學家 / 艺术史学家 (yìshùshǐxuéjiā), 美術史學家 / 美术史学家 (měishùshǐxuéjiā), 藝術史家 / 艺术史家 (yìshùshǐjiā), 美術史家 / 美术史家 (měishùshǐjiā)

• Czech: historik umění m, historička umění f
• Danish: kunsthistoriker c
• Dutch: kunsthistoricus (nl) m
• Estonian: kunstiajaloolane
• Finnish: taidehistorioitsija
• French: historien de l’art m, historienne de l’art f
• Galician: historiador da arte m
• Georgian: ხელოვნების ისტორიკოსი (xelovnebis isṭoriḳosi)
• German: Kunsthistoriker (de) m, Kunsthistorikerin (de) f
• Greek: ιστορικός τέχνης m or f (istorikós téchnis)
• Hebrew: היסטוריון האמנות m (historyon homanut)
• Hungarian: művészettörténész (hu)
• Italian: storico dell'arte m, storica dell'arte f
• Japanese: 美術史家 (geijutsu shika)
• Korean: 미술사가 (misulsaga)
• Latvian: mākslas vēsturnieks m, mākslas vēsturniece f
• Lithuanian: meno istorikas m, meno istorikė f
• Macedonian: историчар на уметноста m (istoričar na umetnosta)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kunsthistoriker m

  Nynorsk: kunsthistorikar m

• Polish: historyk sztuki m, historyczka stuki f
• Portuguese: historiador de arte m, historiadora de arte f
• Romanian: istoric de artă m, istorică de artă f
• Russian: историк искусства m (istorik iskusstva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хисто̀рича̄р у̀мјетно̄сти m, хисто̀рича̄рка у̀мјетно̄сти f

  Roman: històričār ùmjetnōsti m, històričārka ùmjetnōsti f

• Slovak: historik umenia m, historička umenia f
• Slovene: zgodovinar umetnosti m, zgodovinarka umetnosti f
• Spanish: historiador del arte m, historiadora del arte f
• Swedish: konsthistoriker (sv) c
• Thai: นักประวัติศาสตร์ศิลป์ (nák bprà-wàt-sàat-sĭn)
• Turkish: sanat tarihçisi
• Ukrainian: історик мистецтва m (istoryk mystectva)
• Welsh: hanesydd celf m