James Snyder (art historian)

James Snyder (James E. Snyder) (1928–1990) was an American art historian, specializing in northern Renaissance art. His Northern Renaissance Art of 1985 was a standard textbook on the subject for several decades, with a posthumous revised edition in 2005, revised by Larry Silver and Henry Luttikhuizen, being somewhat replaced by Jeffrey Chipps Smith's The Northern Renaissance of 2004. Snyder taught at Bryn Mawr College from 1964 until his retirement in 1989. He died of liver disease in August 1990, aged 62.

He is not to be confused with the American museum director and art historian, James S. Snyder (born 1952).