Alain Erlande-Brandenburg (2 August 1937 in Luxeuil (Haute-Saône) – 6 June 2020, Paris) was a French art historian and honorary general curator for heritage, a specialist on Gothic and Romanesque art.

He was also director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études (4th section) from 1974 to 2005.

From 1991 to 2000 he was professor of medieval archaeology and art history at the École des Chartes.

[4] Brandenburg was Inspector General of French museums in 1988 and president of the Société française d'archéologie from 1985 to 1994.

He has gained an international reputation for a number of important publications on the Gothic era, notably an enlightening work on the new conception of the history of art—La Cathédrale—published in 1989.