Juhan Maiste is Professor and Head of the Department of Art History at the University of Tartu; PhD at the Moscow Central Institute of Art History (1985); doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki, doctoral degree at the Estonian Academy of Arts (1995). Visiting professor at the universities of Helsinki, Turku, Oulu in Finland, Greifswald, La Sapienza in Rome and others. Doctor honoris hausa of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Author of ca 20 monographs on art history, cultural heritage and landscape architecture. Editor-in-chief of the Baltic Journal of Art History. Recent publications include: series of publications on the architectural and cultural history of Tartu University and its architect Johann Wilhelm Krause, a collection of essays Freedom to Remember (2016). Editor and author of History of Estonian Art, No. 3 (1770–1830), 2017, and the collection of articles In the Search of the University Landscape (2018). The last monograph is on the history  architecture of the noble houses in the Dome quarter of Tallinn (2018).