Pierre Devambez (19 November 1902 in

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– 14 January 1980 in Paris) was a 20th-century French Hellenist, archaeologist and historian of Greek art.

Biography

The son of

André Devambez André Victor Édouard Devambez (26 May 1867 – 18 March 1944) was a French painter and illustrator. best-known his whimsical illustrations of children's books and his dramatic paintings of Paris scenes and of early airplanes from a viewpoint hig ...

, Pierre Devambez joined 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, Savoi ...

in 1922 and passed the agrégation es lettres in 1926. A member of the French School at Athens (1928–1933) and of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, he sojourned in Istanbul from 1933 to 1937 and wrote there the ''Catalogue des Grands Bronzes''. From 1929 to 1933 he directed the excavations at

Thasos Thasos or Thassos ( el, Θάσος, ''Thásos'') is a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea. It is the northernmost major Greek island, and 12th largest by area. The island has an area of and a population of about 13,000. It forms a separate re ...

, as again in 1953–1954, and the excavations of the Sinuri sanctuary in

Caria Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; tr, Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionians, Ionian and Dorians, Dorian Greeks colonized the west of i ...

(1935–1938). He also participated in the work at

Xanthos Xanthos ( Lycian: 𐊀𐊕𐊑𐊏𐊀 ''Arñna'', el, Ξάνθος, Latin: ''Xanthus'', Turkish: ''Ksantos'') was an ancient major city near present-day Kınık, Antalya Province, Turkey. The remains of Xanthos lie on a hill on the left ba ...

(1950) and, from 1961 to 1963, at Laodicea on the Lycus. Curator and chief curator of the Department of Greek and Roman antiquities at the

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from 1937, he was also in charge of Greek ceramics course at the École du Louvre. Providing classes at the École Normale Supérieure (1954), he moved the classical archeology seminar in the halls of the Louvre. A director of a seminary in Archaic and Classical Greek religion at the École pratique des hautes études (1961–1967), he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1970 and would preside the international commission of the '' Corpus vasorum antiquorum''.

Selected publications

*1932: ''Un quartier romain à Thasos (fouilles de 1925 à 1931)'' *1937: ''Grands Bronzes du musée de Stamboul'' *1939: ''La Sculpture grecque'' *1942: ''Sculptures thasiennes'', in ''Bulletin de correspondance hellénique'' *1944: ''Le style grec'', Larousse *1955: ''L'Art au siècle de Périclès'' *1959: ''Le Sanctuaire de Sinuri près de Mylasa'', with E. Haspels *1960: ''Sculptures grecques'' *1962: ''Bas-relief de Téos'' *1962: ''La Peinture grecque'' *1966: ''Dictionnaire de la civilisation grecque'', with R. Flacelière, P. M. Schuhl, R. Martin *1978: ''Grèce'', Hachette *1983: ''Le monde non-chrétien'', Gallimard.

Bibliography

*1980:

Pierre Demargne Pierre Demargne () (8 February 1903 – 13 December 2000) was a French historian and archaeologist. Biography Pierre Demargne went to school at ''l'École normale supérieure'', where he took and passed the ''agrégation de lettres'' exam. He ...

''Éloge funèbre de M. Pierre Devambez''
in '' Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres'' *1980: F. Villard, ''Pierre Devambez'', in ''Revue archéologique'' *1981: J. Pouilloux, ''Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Pierre Devambez'', in ''Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres'' *1981: B. Holtzmann, ''Pierre Devambez 1902-1980'', in ''Encyclopaedia Universalis'' *2007: Eve Gran-Aymerich, ''Les chercheurs de passé'', Éditions du CNRS, 2007, (p. 750–751)

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