List of philosophers of art
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This is a list of aestheticians, notable philosophers of art, who theorize about the nature of art and beauty.
Born before 17th century
- Abhinavagupta
 - Thomas Aquinas
 - Aristotle
 - Augustine of Hippo
 - Yusuf Balasagun
 - Liu Xie
 - Longinus
 - Plato
 - Plotinus
 
Born in the 17th or 18th century
- Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
 - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
 - Edmund Burke
 - Victor Cousin
 - Jonathan Edwards
 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
 - Johann Friedrich Herbart
 - Johann Gottfried Herder
 - David Hume
 - Francis Hutcheson
 - Immanuel Kant
 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
 - Thomas Reid
 - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
 - Friedrich Schiller
 - August Wilhelm Schlegel
 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
 - Arthur Schopenhauer
 - Johann Georg Sulzer
 - Tyagaraja
 
Born in the 19th century
- Vissarion Belinsky
 - Clive Bell
 - Walter Benjamin
 - George Birkhoff
 - Georg Brandes
 - Ferruccio Busoni
 - R. G. Collingwood
 - Benedetto Croce
 - John Dewey
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 - Etienne Gilson
 - Eduard Hanslick
 - Søren Kierkegaard
 - Susanne Langer
 - Vernon Lee
 - György Lukács
 - Herbert Marcuse
 - Jacques Maritain
 - Friedrich Nietzsche
 - Walter Pater
 - Hans Pfitzner
 - Edgar Allan Poe
 - John Ruskin
 - George Santayana
 - Viktor Shklovsky
 - Algernon Charles Swinburne
 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
 - Oscar Wilde
 
Born in the 20th century
- Theodor Adorno
 - Rudolf Arnheim
 - Sri Aurobindo
 - Roland Barthes
 - Georges Bataille
 - Max Black
 - Maurice Blanchot
 - Harold Bloom
 - John Cage
 - Stanley Cavell
 - Arthur Danto
 - Jacques Derrida
 - Umberto Eco
 - Michel Foucault
 - Hans-Georg Gadamer
 - Nelson Goodman
 - Clement Greenberg
 - John Hospers
 - Siri Hustvedt
 - Mani Kaul
 - Joseph Kosuth
 - Jean-François Lyotard
 - André Malraux
 - Michael Oakeshott
 - Ayn Rand
 - Roger Scruton
 - Eli Siegel
 - Richard Wollheim