André Chastel
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André Chastel was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Italian Renaissance
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He was a professor at the Collège de France
, where he held the chair of art and civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, from 1970 to 1984, he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
in 1975.
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
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He was a professor at the Collège de France
Collège de France
The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...
, where he held the chair of art and civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, from 1970 to 1984, he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is a French learned society devoted to the humanities, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France.-History:...
in 1975.
Publications
- Léonard de VinciLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
par lui-même, Édit. Nagel, 1952 - Marsile Ficin et l'art, Droz, Genève, 1954
- L'Art italien, 1956 (reprinted: 1982, 1989, 1995; Italian translation: 1957-1958, English translation: 1963)
- Botticelli, Silvana, Milan, 1957
- Art et HumanismHumanismHumanism is an approach in study, philosophy, world view or practice that focuses on human values and concerns. In philosophy and social science, humanism is a perspective which affirms some notion of human nature, and is contrasted with anti-humanism....
e à FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
au temps de Laurent le Magnifique, P.U.F, 1959, 1961, 1982 - L'Âge de l'humanisme (with Robert Klein), Éditions de la connaissance, Bruxelles, 1963
- Le Grand Atelier d'Italie, 1460-1500, Gallimard, 1965
- RenaissanceRenaissanceThe Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
méridionale, 1460-1500, Gallimard, 1965 - Le Mythe de la Renaissance, 1420-1520, Skira, Genève, 1969
- La Crise de la Renaissance, 1520-1600, Skira, Genève, 1969
- Fables, formes, figures (2 volumes), Flammarion, 1978
- L'image dans le miroir, Gallimard, 1980
- Grotesque, l'Arpenteur, 1980
- Chronique de la peinture italienne à la Renaissance, 1250-1580, 1983
- Le sac de RomeSack of RomeThe city of Rome has been sacked on several occasions. Among the most famous:*Battle of the Allia – Rome is sacked by the Gauls after the Battle of the Allia*Sack of Rome – Rome is sacked by Alaric, King of the Visigoths...
, Gallimard, 1984 - L'Illustre Incomprise, Mona LisaMona LisaMona Lisa is a portrait by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel, completed circa 1503–1519...
, Gallimard, 1988 - Histoire de l'art français, 4 volumes, 1992-1996
- La Pala ou le Retable italien des origines à 1500, 1993
- La gloire de Raphaël ou le triomphe d’Éros, RMN, 1995
- Giorgio VasariGiorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...
, les Vies des meilleurs peintres sculpteurs et architectes, French translation of Lives of the Artists with notes, edited by André Chastel, Paris, Berger-Levrault, "Arts" collection, 12 vol., 1981-1989. Reissued, Actes Sud, "Thesaurus" collection, 2 vol., 2005.