William Hood (art historian)

William Hood is an art historian. He was born in Birmingham, AL in 1940 and educated at the Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA, the University of Georgia and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. He is the Mildred C. Jay Professor of Art Emeritus at Oberlin College, where he taught from 1974 through 2007. Professor Hood was a Visiting Professor in the history of Italian Renaissance Art at Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology from 2008 through 2010. He was Visiting Professor in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art at the Institute of FIne Arts, New York University from 2010 to 2020.