Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle

Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (22 January 1819 – 31 October 1897) was an Italian writer and art critic, best known as part of "Crowe and Cavalcaselle", for the many works in English on art history he co-authored with Joseph Archer Crowe.

Their multi-volume A New History of Painting in Italy continued to be revised and republished until 1909, after both were dead.

Cavalcaselle participated in the Revolution of 1848 and in the Roman Republic, and was sentenced to death in absentia.

There he published, together with Joseph A. Crowe, their first joint work, Early Flemish Painters (1856), later followed by the History of Painting in Italy (3 volumes, 1864-1866).

He returned to Rome in 1875 to become the chief of the art department at ministerial level under the Minister of Public Instruction, until 1893.