Full Name: Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, comte de
Other Names:
- Robert de Lasteyrie
Gender: male
Date Born: 1848
Date Died: 1921
Home Country/ies: France
Subject Area(s): archaeology, French (culture or style), Medieval (European), monuments, Romanesque, and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Medieval archaeologist who helped establish a chronology for Romanesque monuments in France. His students at the école des Chartes included Camille Enlart and Marcel Aubert.
Selected Bibliography
and Quicherat, Jules étienne Joseph. Mélanges d’archéologie et d’histoire, archéologie du moyen âge, mémoires et fragments réunis. Paris: A. Picard, 1886; Bibliographie générale des travaux historiques et archéologiques publiés par les sociétés savantes de la France. 6 vols. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1888-1916; L’architecture religieuse en France à l’époque gothique. Paris: A. Picard, 1912.
Sources
Aubert, Marcel, ed. L’architecture religieuse en France à l’époque gothique. 2 vols. Paris: A. Picard, 1926-27; Cahn, Walter. “Henri Focillon.” Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline. Volume 3: Philosophy and the Arts. Edited by Helen Damico. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 2110. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000, p. 265, mentioned.