About Jules Leroy
Lived 1903 – 1979 (aged 75). Jules Leroy was a French art historian.
Jules Leroy (1903 in Ablis – 1979 in Chaptelat) was a French priest and researcher in the domains of Syriac, Coptic and Ethiopian manuscripts, art and architecture.
As a novice he joined the French Benedictine congregation of Solesmes in their exile on the Isle of Wight. From 1930 to 1933 Leroy studied at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome.
Leroy's early researches in iconography of Pre-Chalcedonian Christian churches were guided by Henri Seyrig in the Lebanon and by the historian of art, André Grabar. A researcher in the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Leroy was attached to the Institut d' Etudes et de Recherches d' Ethiopie in Addis Ababa.
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Who was Jules Leroy?
French art historian
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Jules Leroy was born on 10 April 1903 in Ablis.
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Jules Leroy died on 8 April 1979 in Limoges.
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Jules Leroy was an art historian.
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Jules Leroy was French.
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