George Lawrence Gorse, Jr. (born January 6, 1949, in Ithaca, New York) is an American art historian and educator.
A scholar of medieval and Renaissance architecture, Gorse is the Viola Horton Professor of Art History at Pomona College.
[2] He wrote a master's thesis on the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, while his doctoral dissertation was on the villa of Andrea Doria in Genoa, supervised by Professor Catherine Zerner.
[4] Upon graduating with a doctorate, Gorse began his professorial career at Pomona College, and has been employed there ever since.
He focuses especially on the eleventh through sixteenth centuries in Genoa, and has published extensively on the topic.