Gudiol [Ricart], José

Date born: 1904

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Date died: 1985

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Historian of Spanish art. Two important works appeared by him in 1948; he and José Pijoán issued their Las pinturas murales románicas de Cataluña and he and Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño published their Arquitectura y escultura románicas, the latter for the important Ars Hispaniae series. Gudiol introduced the Spanish symbologist Juan Cirlot to Gothic art.

1985 saw the death of three emenent Spanish-subject art historians, Harold Wethy, Enrique Lafuente Ferrari and Gudiol.

Home Country: Spain

Sources: Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986 p. 443; [obituary:] Archivo Espanol de Arte 58 (October/December 1985): 466-467.

Bibliography: Goya. 4 vols. Barcelona, 1970; and Pijoán, José. Las pinturas murales románicas de Cataluña. Barcelona: Alpha 1948; and Gaya Nuño, Juan Antonio. Arquitectura y escultura románicas. Madrid: Editorial Plus-Ultra 1948.

Subject's name: José Gudiol Ricart