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'Matthew the Parisian'; [1] c. 1200 – 1259), was an English Benedictine monk, chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts, and cartographer who was based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. He authored a number of historical works, many of which he scribed and illuminated himself, typically in drawings partly coloured with watercolour ...
François Guizot (1787–1874), historian of general French, English history [1] Pauline de Lézardière (1754–1835), law historian [1] Louis Gabriel Michaud (1773–1858) [1] Jules Michelet (1798–1874), with a passion for his subjects and le peuple, he has been called "the historian" of France, including his 17-volume Histoire de France [6]
The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music. Visual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance. The English period began far later than the Italian, which was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier.
Often called "the first art historian", [16] Vasari invented the genre of the encyclopedia of artistic biographies with his Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects). This work was first published in 1550 and dedicated to Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici.
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) – Expatriate American living in England; leading portrait painter of his era, landscape painter and watercolorist; Richard Caton Woodville (1856–1927) – English artist, and illustrator especially of battle scenes; Joseph Benwell Clark (1857–1938) – English landscape painter and book illustrator
Jules Michelet (French: [ʒyl miʃlɛ]; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) [3] was a French historian and writer.He is best known for his multivolume work, Histoire de France (History of France), [4] which is considered a foundational text in modern historiography.
B. Gabriel Badea-Päun; Janine Bailly-Herzberg; Quentin Bajac; Pascale Ballet; Norbert-Bertrand Barbe; Henry Barbet de Jouy; Arvède Barine; Adolphe Basler; Jeannine Baticle
A collection of documents edited by Paul Riant relating to the status of relics at Constantinople before 1204 and their disposition after the Fourth Crusade. A further study, La croix des premiers croisés; la sainte lance; la sainte couronne, was published by French archaeologist and art historian Fernand de Mély in 1904. [467]