Robert Williams is the author of Art, Theory, and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy: From Techne to Metatechne (Cambridge, 1997); and Art Theory: An Historical Introduction (Blackwell, 2004; Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) which has been translated into Chinese and Korean; and Raphael and the Redefinition of Art in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge 2017). With Thomas Frangenberg he translated Francesco Bocchi's The Beauties of the City of Florence: A Guidebook of 1591 (Harvey Miller, 2006) and edited The Beholder: The Experience of Art in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2006). With James Elkins he edited Renaissance Theory (Routledge, 2008) and, with Peter Mack, Michael Baxandall, Vision, and the Work of Words (Ashgate, 2015). His recent articles include "Virtus Perficitur: On the Meaning of Donatello's Bronze David," Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 53 (2009), 217-28, "Das Eine im Wandel: Music and Kunstwissenschaft," Journal of Art Historiography, 1 (2009), and “Kunstwissenschaft, Bildwissenschaft, and Vasari,” in Vasari als Paradigma:  Topoi, Ricezione (A, Nova & F. Joneitz, eds., Florence, 2015).  In 2012 he curated The Zodiac of Wit: Peter Meller and the Graphic Imagination, at UCSB's Art, Design and Architecture Museum and a related exhibition at the National Gallery of Hungrian Art in Budapest in 2017.