Louis-Marie-Pierre-Dominique Gillet (11 December 1876 – 1 July 1943) was a French
art historian and literary historian.
Life
Louis Gillet was born in Paris on 11 December 1876.
He studied at the
Collège Stanislas de Paris and the
École normale supérieure
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, S ...
. In 1900, he became a lecturer on the French at the
University of Greifswald
The University of Greifswald (; german: Universität Greifswald), formerly also known as “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald“, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pom ...
; from 1907 to 1909 he was a professor at the
Université Laval
Université Laval is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Montm ...
in Montreal. He became an art critic in Paris, before entering the armed forces. Gillet contributed a number of article to the ''
Catholic Encyclopedia
The ''Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church'' (also referred to as the ''Old Catholic Encyclopedia'' and the ''Original Catholic Encyclopedia'') i ...
''.
[''The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers'', 1917, p. 66]
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Works
*''Raphaël'', 1907
*''Watteau'', 1921
*''Trois variations sur Claude Monet'', 1927
*''Esquisses anglaises'', 1930
*''Essais sur l'art français'', 1937, dedicated to Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book ''The Drawings of the Florentine Painters'' was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large ...
.
References
1876 births
1943 deaths
Writers from Paris
French literary historians
French art historians
Members of the Académie Française
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
French male non-fiction writers
Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia
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