Millard Meiss

Millard Lazare Meiss (March 25, 1904 – June 12, 1975) 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. After teaching at Columbia, he became a professor at Harvard until 1958, when he joined the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, N.J. In 1966, he assisted in Florence with restoration efforts following the 1966 Flood of the Arno River, despite being in ill health. He gave the 1970 Aspects of Art Lecture.

Meiss was married to his wife Miggi (short for Margaret), a clinical psychologist. They had a daughter, Elinor Sider, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He died in June 1975 at age 71.