Valentin Raimond Silvain van Marle (1887-18 November 1936) was a Dutch historian and art historian specialising in medieval history and Italian painting, particularly attentive to sociological relations.
He is best known for his 19-volume The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, dealing with Italian painting from the Romanesque era to the end of the 15th century. It was published between 1923 and 1938 in Dutch, French, English and Italian - he completed 17 of the 21 volumes he had planned, with Frederick Mason Perkins and his widow Charlotte van Marle completing the work and producing the 19th volume and the general index. The first two volumes were translated into Italian by Alba Buitoni in 1938.