Jacqueline Lafontaine-Dosogne

Jacqueline Lafontaine-Dosogne (23 November 1928, in Braine-l'Alleud - 21 May 1995, in Brussels) was a Belgian researcher, curator of the Royal Museums of Belgium, and a specialist in the Byzantine Empire and, more broadly, in the history of Christian art.

A prolific scientist, she produced more than 120 publications in her fields of study.

Biography She was born on 23 November 1928, in Braine-l'Alleud. She studied at the Free University of Brussels, where she earned a degree in art history and archaeology (1955), before pursuing a doctorate in philology and classical literature, which she obtained in 1961. She began by studying the artistic representations of the narratives of Jesus' childhood. In the course of this research, she highlighted the connections between apocryphal literature on the childhood, such as the Protoevangelium of James and Byzantine hymnography, like the Akathist Hymn. She had a particular interest in the art of Pisidia, the region of Antioch, the art of Cappadocia, and the art of the Caucasus through Georgian art. She also compiled lists of Byzantine objects in Western Europe that came from the plundering of the Crusades.