Dmytro Antonovych (14 November 1877, in Kyiv – 12 October 1945, in Prague) was a Ukrainian politician and art historian.
Professor Dmytro Antonovych was the son of two Ukrainian historians: his father was Volodymyr Antonovych and his mother was Kateryna Antonovych-Melnyk (1859–1942), an archaeologist[1] from the city of Khorol (today – Poltava Oblast).
[2] Antonovych was a member of the Ukrainian Central Council, and he served as the minister of naval affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic, in cabinets headed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Vsevolod Holubovych (1917-1918), and the minister of arts in Volodymyr Chekhivsky’s government (1918/1919).
[3] Then Antonovych was the president of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission of the UNR in Rome.
His works include Estetychne vykhovannia Shevchenka (Shevchenko's Aesthetic Education, 1914), Ukraïns'ke mystetstvo (Ukrainian Art, 1923), Trysta rokiv ukraïns'koho teatru (1619–1919) (Three Hundred Years of Ukrainian Theater [1619–1919], 1925), T. Shevchenko iak maliar (T. Shevchenko, the Artist, 1937), and Deutsche Einflüsse auf die ukrainische Kunst (1942).