Dora Jane Janson, née Heineberg (1916-2002) was an American art historian, who collaborated with her husband Horst W.
[1] She studied art history at Radcliffe College, where she met Horst W. Janson, an émigré graduate student at Harvard University.
Janson "never denied that she consciously sacrificed her career to raise children".
[3] She also collaborated as co-author with her husband on The Story of Painting for Young People (1954) and History of Art (1962).
[4] Dora Janson's From slave to siren (1971), an extensive catalog of a Duke University Museum of Art exhibition on Victorian women's jewellery, related the jewelry to changing 19th-century ideals of feminine beauty and behaviour,[5] reflected in cameo portraiture.