Josep Gudiol i Ricart, also known as José Gudiol in citation (1904–1985), was a Catalan art historian, specializing in Catalan Romanesque painting,

Gothic painting Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Northern, Southern and ...

and other types of Spanish art.

Biography

Josep Maria Gudiol i Ricart was born in 1904 in

Vic Vic, vic or VIC may refer to: People and fictional characters * Vic (name), a list of people, fictional characters and mascots with the given name * V.I.C. (rapper) (born 1987), stage name of an American rapper Places * Vic, Spain, a town and ...

, Catalonia, Spain. Gudiol Ricart published a series of monumental books surveying Spanish art history, the ''Ars Hispaniae'' series. The two most important works in the series were, ''Las Pinturas Murales Románicas de Cataluña'' (Gudiol and Pijoán, 1948) and ''Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas'' (Gudiol and Gaya Nuño, 1948). He served as director of the Amatller Institute of Hispanic Art (Institut Amatller D'art Hispànic) in Barcelona, Spain. Gudiol's daughter was the painter Montserrat Gudiol i Corominas (1933–2015).

Publications

* * * * *

References

{{Authority control 1904 births 1985 deaths People from Vic Spanish art historians Academics from Catalonia