Martin Warnke (12 October 1937 – 11 December 2019) was a German art historian.
In 1963, he wrote a Ph.D. thesis on Peter Paul Rubens at the Free University of Berlin under Hans Kauffmann.
In 1970, he completed his Habilitationsschrift on court art at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
Warnke represented a research direction that is particularly focused on the social history of art.
Warnke was a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung and the Committee on the Preservation of German Cultural Heritage.