Millard Lazare Meiss (March 25, 1904 - June 12, 1975)[1] was an American art historian, one of whose specialties was Gothic architecture.
Meiss worked as an art history professor at Columbia University from 1934 to 1953.
[2] After teaching at Columbia, he became a professor at Harvard until 1958, when he joined the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, N.J.[2] Meiss has edited several leading art journals and has also written articles and books on medieval and Renaissance painting.
[2] Among his many important contributions are Italian style in Catalonia and a fourteenth century Catalan workshop (1941), Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death (1951)[2] and French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry (3 vol., 1967–74).
[3][4] In 1966, he assisted in Florence with restoration efforts following the 1966 Flood of the Arno River, despite being in ill health.