Charles Picard (7 June 1883 – 15 December 1965) was a prominent

Classical archaeologist Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

and historian of

ancient Greek art Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation. The rate of stylistic d ...

. He is best known for his multi-volume, monumental survey, ''Manuel d'archéologie grecque: La sculpture.'' Volume I (7-6th centuries BCE), was published in 1935. He completed the second fascicule of Volume IV (4th century BCE) in 1963. Picard was elected member of the

Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions ( epig ...

in 1932. His children were the historian

Gilbert Charles-Picard Gilbert Picard, called Gilbert Charles-Picard, (15 October 1913 – 21 December 1998) was a 20th-century French historian and archaeologist, a specialist of North Africa during Antiquity. The son of Hellenist Charles Picard (1883–1965), h ...

and Yvonne Picard, a member of the

French Resistance The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...

, who was murdered at

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

in 1943.

Sources

* Raymond Lebègue, ''Éloge funèbre de M. Charles Picard, membre de l'Académie'', Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 110e année, No 1, 1966 (pp. 1–6)
online edition
* Ève Gran-Aymerich, ''Les chercheurs de passé'', Editions du CNRS, 2007 (pp. 1058–1059) French art historians French classical scholars Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1883 births 1965 deaths French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers {{France-art-historian-stub