Giles Henry Robertson

Giles Henry Robertson FRSE RSA (Hon) (1913–1987) was a 20th-century British art historian and expert on the Italian Renaissance.

Giles was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge then read classics at Oxford University.

At the end of hostilities in Europe he joined the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program team (the "Monuments Men") to track art treasures hidden by the Nazis or looted by Allied troops.

In September 1945 this included locating stolen treasures in Vorden and Corvey (previously belonging in the Landmuseum in Munster) and transferring these to Schloss Nordkirchen.

He was promoted several times eventually holding the Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art in 1972, remaining in this post until retirement in 1981.