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Alison Harpur is an art historian, specialising in Italian Renaissance art, with further interests in Northern Renaissance art, British art and collecting, and theological methodologies for the history of art. She studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art and University College London, where she completed her PhD on the relationship between visual culture and the Church Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438–1445). She was formerly Assistant Curator for Research and Information at the Government Art Collection and Assistant Curator of Pictures and Sculpture at the National Trust. She has taught History of Art as an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant at University College London.