Bréhier, Louis

Date born: 1868

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Date died: 1951

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Medievalist focusing n Byzantine and Romanesque sculpture. Method similar to Jurgis Baltrušaitis (q.v.); strong iconography; professor at l'Université de Clermont

Home Country: France

Sources: Sypher, Wylie, ed. Art History; an Anthology of Modern Criticism. Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1975, pp. 117, mentioned; Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art: de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, pp. 171, 212.

Bibliography: L'Art chrétien, son développement iconographique. 1918; L'art en France des invasions barbares à l'époque romane. Paris: La Renaissance du livre, 1930.