Bezalel Narkiss (Hebrew: בצלאל נרקיס; 1926–2008) was an Israeli art historian.
[2] Narkiss was an expert in illuminated medieval Latin and Hebrew manuscripts and the relationship between Christian and Jewish visual art.
After the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989, he embarked on a project to document the synagogues there.
[1] Narkiss was the Nicolas Landau Professor of Art History at the Hebrew University, where he taught since 1964.
In addition to his teaching positions, he was art editor of the Masada Press (1963–1975) and Encyclopaedia Judaica.