Marie-Madeleine Gauthier (25 April 1920 – 20 May 1998) was a

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art historian and author. Gauthier was born in

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in 1920. She studied at the University in

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where she became interested in medieval enamel in which she became a world expert. She lived in the US from 1964-1967. She died in

in 1998.Obituary - ''The Independent'', 27 August 1998
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Works

* ''Highways of the Faith - relics and reliquaries from Jerusalem to Compostela'', Wellfleet Press, 1983

References

1920 births 1998 deaths French art historians French medievalists French women medievalists 20th-century French historians French women art historians Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America 20th-century French women writers French expatriates in the United States {{Europe-art-historian-stub