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Arts Of Mankind
''The Arts of Mankind'' (in French ''L’Univers des formes''), an ambitious series of art history survey books founded in 1960 for the French publisher Gallimard by André Malraux, who edited many of the volumes in collaboration with art historian Georges Salles. Over 40 volumes have appeared to date; roughly half have been translated into English, as follows: *''Sumer: The Dawn of Art'', by André Parrot *''The Arts of Assyria'', by André Parrot *''The Birth of Greek Art'', by Pierre Demargne *''Carolingian Art'', by Jean Hubert, Jean Porcher and WF Volbach *''African Art'', by André Parrot *''The Studios and Styles of the Italian Renaissance: Italy 1460-1500'', by André Chastel *''Europe of the Invasions'', by Jean Hubert *''Archaic Greek Art 620-480 B.C.'', by Jean Charbonneaux, Roland Martin, and Francois Villard *''Classical Greek Art 480-330 B.C.'', by Jean Charbonneaux, Roland Martin, and Francois Villard *''Hellenistic Art 330-50 B.C'', by Jean Charbonneaux *''The Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Malraux
Georges André Malraux ( , ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969). Early years Malraux was born in Paris in 1901, the son of Fernand-Georges Malraux (1875–1930) and Berthe Félicie Lamy (1877–1932). His parents separated in 1905 and eventually divorced. There are suggestions that Malraux's paternal grandfather committed suicide in 1909."Biographie détaillée" , André Malraux Website, accessed 3 September 2010 Malraux was raised by his mother, maternal aun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Salles
Georges Salles (24 September 1889 – 20 October 1966) was a 20th-century French art historian and curator. Biography A specialist of the East, George Salles led excavations in Iran, Afghanistan, and China. He was then curator at the Asian Arts Department of the Louvre Museum, and in 1941 director of the Guimet Museum. Speaking of the first General Conference of the ICOM, held in Paris in 1948, its president Georges Salles reported that "It has enabled a better understanding of the skills needed in our time by the curator of a museum if he/she is to fulfill h/h duties in a satisfactory manner." Between 1945 and 1957 he was director of the Museums of France. With Jean Cassou, he laid the foundations for a new design of the museum of modern art, to make art available to the greatest number. It is with his support that were made the ceiling by Georges Braque at the Louvre, the fresco of Pablo Picasso and the wall of Joan Miró at the UNESCO, all famous painters of whom he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Parrot
André Charles Ulrich Parrot (15 February 1901 – 24 August 1980) was a French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East. He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, and is best known for his work at Mari, Syria, where he led important excavations from 1933 to 1975. Biography Parrot was born in 1901 in Désandans in the French department of Doubs. He was appointed chief curator of the National Museums in 1946, and became director of the Louvre from 1958 to 1962. He was a Commander of the Legion of Honour and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He married his second wife Marie-Louise Girod in 1960, and died in Paris in 1980. One of his students at the École du Louvre was Denise Cocquerillat. When he was mobilised in 1940, he was replaced as a teacher at the École du Louvre by Marguerite Rutten Marguerite Rutten (18 October 1898, Paris - 07 April 1984, Nice) was a French archaeologist and Assyriologist. Biography “Maggie” Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Hubert (archaeologist)
Jean Hubert (12 June 1902 – 1 July 1994) was a 20th-century French Art history, art historian, specializing in Place of worship, religious architecture. The son and grandsons of chartists, Jean Hubert himself became a student at the École Nationale des Chartes where he supported in 1925 a thesis entituled ''L'abbaye Notre–Dame de Déols (917–1627)'' which earned him the degree of archivist paleographer. He became director of the Departmental Archives of Seine-et-Marne in 1926 and held this position until 1955. He then succeeded Marcel Aubert in the chair of medieval archeology at the École des Chartes (1955–1973). Jean Hubert was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1963. He was also a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France. Main publications His bibliography includes 308 items including *1967: ''L'Europe des invasions'', with Jean Porcher and Wolfgang Fritz Volbach, Éditions Gallimard, series Arts of Mankind, ''L'Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Chastel
André Chastel (15 November 1912, Paris – 18 July 1990, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Renaissance, Italian Renaissance. He was a professor at the Collège de France, where he held the chair of art and civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, from 1970 to 1984, he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1975. He is buried at Ivry Cemetery, Ivry-sur-Seine. Publications *''Florentine Drawings'', Hyperion, 1950 *''Léonard de Vinci par lui-même'', Édit. Nagel, 1952 *''Marsile Ficin et l'art'', Droz, Genève, 1954 *''L'Art italien'', 1956 (reprinted: 1982, 1989, 1995; Italian translation: 1957–1958, English translation: 1963) *''Botticelli'', Silvana, Milan, 1957 *''Art et Humanisme à Florence au temps de Laurent le Magnifique'', P.U.F, 1959, 1961, 1982 *''L'Âge de l'humanisme'' (with Robert Klein), Éditions de la connaissance, Bruxelles, 1963 *''Le Grand Atelier d'Italie, 1460-1500'', Gall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Charbonneaux
Jean Marie Augustin Charbonneaux (15 January 1895 – 21 February 1969) was a 20th-century French archaeologist. He was a member of the French School at Athens from 1921 to 1925 and of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres from 1962. He was successively curator, chief curator and Inspector General of the Museums of France and professor of Greek and Roman archeology at the École du Louvre from 1930 to 1965. Publications (selection) *1925: with K. Gottlob: ''La Tholos, 2: Relevés et restaurations''. In: ''Fouilles de Delphes, 2. Topographie et architecture''. E. de Boccard, Paris. *1929: ''L'art égéen''. G. van Oest, Paris and Brussels *1936: ''Les terres cuites grecques''. L. Reynaud, Paris. *1939: ''La sculpture grecque archaïque''. Éditions de Cluny, Paris; *1912–1945: ''La sculpture grecque classique''. La Guilde du livre, Lausanne; *1948: ''L'art au siècle d'Auguste''. Guilde du Livre, Lausanne. *1949: ''Les sculptures de Rodin''. F. Hazan, Paris. *1958: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuliano Briganti
Giuliano Briganti (2 January 1918 – 17 December 1992) was an Italian art historian. Biography Giuliano Briganti was born in Rome. His father, Aldo Briganti, was an art dealer. Aldo studied under Igino Benvenuto Supino, graduated from the University of Bologna in 1914 with a thesis on Raphaelism, and was subsequently a student of Adolfo Venturi at the Advanced School of art history, part of the Faculty of Arts at the Sapienza University of Rome. Briganti's mother was named Clelia Urbinati. In 1936 Giuliano Briganti graduated from Ennio Quirino Visconti High School in Rome. In 1940 he received a degree in history of medieval and modern art from Sapienza university, disputing his thesis with Pietro Toesca on the cinquecento Bolognese painter Tibaldi. The thesis later took the form of a monograph, ''Mannerism and Pellegrino Tibaldi'', published in 1945. Briganti’s first writings on art date to 1937, in the monthly “La Ruota”. In 1940 he sat on the editorial committee of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (19 February 1900 – 17 January 1975) was an Italian archaeologist and art historian. Biography Bianchi Bandinelli was born in Siena to Mario Bianchi Bandinelli (1859–1930) and Margherita Ottilie "Lily" von Korn (Bianchi Bandinelli, 1878–1905), who were descended from ancient aristocracy in Siena. His early research focused on the Etruscan centers close to his family lands, Clusium (1925) and Suana (1929). Disgusted with Italian fascism, despite being the man who showed Hitler around Rome under Mussolini, he converted to communism after World War II and became a Marxist. He founded a magazine, ''Società'', together with Cesare Luporini and Romano Bilenchi in 1945. As an anti-fascist, he was appointed to a number of important art-historical positions immediately after the war. For example, he was director of the new government's fine arts and antiquities ministry (Antichità e Belle Arti, 1945–48). His memoir of fascism in Italy was published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Grabar
André Nicolaevitch Grabar (July 26, 1896 – October 3, 1990) was an historian of Romanesque art and the art of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Bulgarian Empire. Born in Ukraine and educated in Kyiv, St. Petersburg and Odessa, he spent his career in Bulgaria (1919–1922), France (1922–1958) and the United States (1958–1990), and wrote all his papers in French. Grabar was one of the 20th-century founders of the study of the art and icons of the Eastern Roman Empire, adopting a synthetic approach embracing history, theology and interactions with the Islamic world. His son Oleg Grabar also became an art historian, with a special interest in Islamic art. Life André Nicolaevitch Grabar was born in Ukraine on July 26, 1896, at Kyiv (at that time part of the Russian Empire). He was educated in Kyiv and at first thought of becoming an artist, joining the studio of a Kyiv painter on leaving school. Deciding that he did not have sufficient talent he turned to the study of art hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Ghirshman
Roman Ghirshman (, ''Roman Mikhailovich Girshman''; October 3, 1895 – 5 September 1979) was a Russian-born French archeologist who specialized in ancient Persia. Ghirshman spent nearly thirty years excavating ancient Persian archeological sites throughout Iran and Afghanistan. Biography Roman Ghirshman was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Kharkiv in the Sloboda Ukraine (present-day Ukraine) in 1895. Ghirshman moved to Paris in 1917 to study Archeology and Ancient Languages. He was mainly interested in the archeological ruins of Iran, specifically Teppe Gian, Teppe Sialk, Bagram in Afghanistan, Bishapur in Fars, and Susa. Explore the hills Giyan book, written Roman Ghirshman, in Iran, Tehran, by Mortza Kayani and SohrabiPileroodi translated into Farsi and in publications Safyrardhal, 2021AD has been published. In the 1930s, Girshman, together with his wife Tania Ghirshman, was the first to excavate Teppe Sialk. His studies on Chogha Zanbil have been printed in 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art History Books
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, ''art'' referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative or applied arts. The nature of art and related concepts, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
