Barry Bergdoll, The Museum of Modern Art/Columbia University (2013)
Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750

Craig Clunas, University of Oxford (2012)
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences

Mary Beard, University of Cambridge (2011)
The Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from Ancient Rome to Salvador Dalí

Mary Miller, Yale University (2010)
Art and Representation in the Ancient New World

T. J. Clark, University of California, Berkeley (2009)
Picasso and Truth

Joseph Leo Koerner, Harvard University (2008)
Bosch and Bruegel: Parallel Worlds?

Helen Vendler, Harvard University (2007)
Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death

Simon Schama, Columbia University (2006)
Really Old Masters: Age, Infirmity, and Reinvention

Irene J. Winter, Harvard University (2005)
“Great Work”: Terms of Aesthetic Experience in Ancient Mesopotamia

Irving Lavin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (2004)
More Than Meets the Eye

Kirk Varnedoe, Institute for Advanced Study (2003)
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock

Michael Fried, The Johns Hopkins University (2002)
The Moment of Caravaggio

Salvatore Settis, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (2001)
Giorgione and Caravaggio: Art as Revolution

Marc Fumaroli, Collège de France (2000)
The Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns in the Arts, 1600–1715

Carlo Bertelli, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Accademia di Architettura (1999)
Transitions

Lothar Ledderose, Universität Heidelberg (1998)
Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art

John Golding, Painter (1997)
Paths to the Absolute

Pierre M. Rosenberg, Musée du Louvre (1996)
From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, Ingres

Arthur C. Danto, Columbia University (1995)
Contemporary Art and the Pale of History

Jonathan Brown, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts (1994)
Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

John Boardman, University of Oxford, Lincoln College (1993)
The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity

Anthony Hecht, Georgetown University (1992)
The Laws of the Poetic Art

Willibald Sauerländer, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (1991)
Changing Faces: Art and Physiognomy through the Ages

Jennifer Montagu, Warburg Institute (1990)
Gold, Silver, and Bronze: Metal Sculpture of the Roman Baroque

Oleg Grabar, Harvard University (1989)
Intermediary Demons: Toward a Theory of Ornament

John Shearman, Princeton University (1988)
Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance

Jaroslav Pelikan (1987)
Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons

Lukas Foss, Brooklyn Philharmonic (1986)
Confessions of a Twentieth‑Century Composer

James S. Ackerman, Harvard University (1985)
The Villa in History in History

Richard Wollheim, Columbia University (1984)
Painting as an Art

Vincent Scully, Yale University (1983)
The Shape of France

Leo Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania (1982)
The Burden of Michelangelo’s Painting

John Harris, Royal Institute of British Architects (1981)
Palladian Architecture in England, 1615–1760

Peter Kidson, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1980)
Principles of Design in Ancient and Medieval Architecture

John Rewald, Graduate Center, City University of New York (1979)
Cézanne and America

Joseph W. Alsop, Journalist (1978)
The History of Art Collecting

André Chastel, Collège de France (1977)
The Sack of Rome: 1527

Peter von Blanckenhagen, New York University (1976)
Aspects of Classical Art

H. C. Robbins Landon, Musicologist (1975)
Music in Europe in the Year 1776

H. W. Janson, New York University (1974)
Nineteenth‑Century Sculpture Reconsidered

Jacques Barzun, Columbia University (1973)
The Use and Abuse of Art

Ludwig H. Heydenreich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1972)
Leonardo da Vinci

T. S. R. Boase, University of Oxford (1971)
Vasari: The Man and the Book

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Birkbeck College, University of London (1970)
Some Aspects of Nineteenth‑Century Architecture

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist (1969)
Art as a Mode of Knowledge

Stephen Spender, Poet (1968)
Imaginative Literature and Painting

Mario Praz, Università degli Studi di Roma (1967)
On the Parallel of Literature and the Visual Arts

Lord David Cecil, University of Oxford (1966)
Dreamer or Visionary: A Study of English Romantic Painting

Sir Isaiah Berlin, University of Oxford, All Soul’s College (1965)
Sources of Romantic Thought

Jakob Rosenberg, Harvard University (1964)
On Quality in Art: Criteria of Excellence, Past and Present

Sir John Pope‑Hennessy, Victoria and Albert Museum (1963)
Artist and Individual: Some Aspects of the Renaissance Portrait

Kathleen Raine, Poet (1962)
William Blake and Traditional Mythology

André Grabar, Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes/Collège de France (1961)
Christian Iconography and the Christian Religion in Antiquity

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Yale University (1960)
Horace Walpole

Naum Gabo, Artist (1959)
A Sculptor’s View of the Fine Arts

Sir Anthony Blunt, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1958)
Nicolas Poussin and French Classicism

Sigfried Giedion, Universität Zürich (1957)
Constancy and Change in Art and Architecture

E. H. Gombrich, University College London (1956)
The Visible World and the Language of Art

Etienne Gilson, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (1955)
Art and Reality

Sir Herbert Read, Harvard University (1954)
The Art of Sculpture

Sir Kenneth Clark, Arts Council of Great Britain (1953)
The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art

Jacques Maritain, Princeton University (1952)
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry