This document lists important figures in the history of art history, including Pliny the Elder who wrote about art in his Natural History in the 1st century AD, Giorgio Vasari who published The Lives of the Artists in 1550, Johann Joachim Winckelmann who wrote The History of Ancient Art in 1764, and more modern scholars like Erwin Panofsky, Ernst Gombrich, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Derrida.