Marie-Madeleine Gauthier (25 April 1920 – 20 May 1998) was a
French medieval
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art historian and author.
Gauthier was born in
Langon,
Gironde,
France
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in 1920. She studied at the University in
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefect ...
where she became interested in medieval enamel in which she became a world expert. She lived in the US from 1964-1967. She died in
Langon in 1998.
Obituary - ''The Independent'', 27 August 1998
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Works
* ''Highways of the Faith - relics and reliquaries from Jerusalem to Compostela'', Wellfleet Press, 1983
References
1920 births
1998 deaths
French art historians
French medievalists
Women medievalists
20th-century French historians
French women historians
Women art historians
Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
20th-century French women writers
French expatriates in the United States
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