About André Chastel
Lived 1912 – 1990 (aged 77). André Chastel was a French art historian and professor.
André Chastel (15 November 1912, Paris – 18 July 1990, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Italian Renaissance.
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. He is buried at Ivry Cemetery, Ivry-sur-Seine.
Publications Florentine Drawings, Hyperion, 1950 Léonard de Vinci 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 Humanisme à Florence 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 Renaissance 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 Rome, Gallimard, 1984 L'Illustre Incomprise, Mona Lisa, 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 Vasari, 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.
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French art historian (1912-1990)
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André Chastel was born on 15 November 1912 in 12th arrondissement of Paris.
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André Chastel died on 18 July 1990 in 16th arrondissement of Paris.
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André Chastel was an art historian and professor.
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