Sarah Blake McHam is a specialist in Italian art between 1250 and 1600. She has written books and articles on Florentine and Venetian painting and sculpture, including artists like Donatello, Giovanni Bellini, the Lombardo family of Venice, and Giambologna. She is particularly interested in the influence of ancient Greco-Roman culture on Italian art theory and practice in the 14th through 16th centuries and explored that topic in her book on Pliny the Elder's legacy in the Renaissance.