Louis Grodecki (18 July 1910,

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– 28 March 1982,

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) was a French art historian. A disciple of

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since 1929, shortly after his arrival in France, and naturalized French in 1935, he met art historian

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in 1949 at the Institute for Advanced Study in

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. Grodecki is famous for his work on romanesque

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, of

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and the Nord-Pas de Calais region. His most notable works are about the stained glasses of

Chartres Cathedral Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (french: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), is a Roman Catholic church in Chartres, France, about southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres. Mostly con ...

, in particular a complete catalogue which he never finished. He was a reviewer for the doctoral dissertation of E. Wayne Craven.

Bibliography

* Au Seuil de l'Art Roman. L'architecture Ottonienne, Paris 1958. Armand Colin * Le Maître de saint Eustache de la cathédrale de Chartres et Les problèmes de la peinture gothique et le Maître de saint Chéron de la cathédrale de Chartres, articles republiées dans Le Moen Âge retrouvé, vol. 2, Flammarion, Paris, 1990 * Le Vitrail Gothique du XIIIe siècle, Louis Grodecki et C. Brisac, Office du Livre, Fribourg, 1984 * Le Siècle de l'An Mil (L'Univers des Formes) (French Edition), Gallimard, 1973 * Ivoires français, etc., Paris, Larousse (1 Jan. 1947) ASIN : B00LI0DRZ6 * Le Vitrail Roman, Grodecki, C. Brisac et C. Lautier, Edition Vilo (1 Jan. 1977) * Norway : Paintings from the Stave churches, Preface R. Hauglid. Introduction L. Grodecki. Published by the New York graphic society by arrangement with Unesco,1955. * Bibliographie Henri Focillon, Yale University Press, 1963 * Pierrefonds / par Louis Grodecki .Paris: Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites, 1979. Nouvelle éd * Le Moyen Âge retrouvé : De l'an mil à l'an 1200. (Idées et recherches).1986, Paris, Flammarion. * Les Vitraux de Notre-Dame de Paris, L. Grodecki, C. Brisac, J. Le Chevallier, Paris 1982, Nouvelles éditions latines. * Gothic Stained Glass : 1200-1300 / L. Grodecki and C.Brisac. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985. * Gothic architecture / L. Grodecki; contributions by Anne Prache and Roland Recht.London : Faber, 1986, c1978. * Etudes sur les vitraux de Suger à Saint-Denis (XIIe siècle) / Préface d'Anne Prache; ʹEdité par Catherine Grodecki avec la collaboration de Chantal Bouchon et Yolanta Załuska. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1995.

Other Information

Photographs contributed by Louis Grodecki to the Conway Library are currently being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art, as part of the Courtauld Connects project.

References

1910 births 1982 deaths French art historians 20th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers Polish emigrants to France {{France-historian-stub