Full Name: Bréhier, Louis
Gender: male
Date Born: 1868
Date Died: 1951
Home Country/ies: France
Subject Area(s): Byzantine (culture or style), Medieval (European), and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Medievalist focusing n Byzantine and Romanesque sculpture. Method similar to Jurgis Baltrušaitis II; strong iconography; professor at l’Université de Clermont
Selected Bibliography
L’Art chrétien, son développement iconographique. 1918; L’art en France des invasions barbares à l’époque romane. Paris: La Renaissance du livre, 1930.
Sources
Sypher, Wylie, ed. Art History; an Anthology of Modern Criticism. Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1975, pp. 117, mentioned; Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l’histoire de l’art: de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, pp. 171, 212.