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Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique

Full Name: Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique

Gender: male

Date Born: 1898

Date Died: 1985

Place Born: Madrid, Spain

Place Died: Ceredilla, Madrid, Spain

Home Country/ies: Spain

Subject Area(s): painting (visual works) and Spanish (culture or style)


Overview

Historian of Spanish art, particularly Goya. Lafuente was a disciple of Manuel Gómez Moreno. He was a professor at the Universidad Complutense y de la Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando In Madrid. His Breve historia de la pintura española (Brief History of Spanish Painting) appeared in 1934. In 1935 he published de La pintura española del s XVII. During the years of Franco’s Spain, Lafuente Ferrari translated the groundbreaking work of Werner Weisbach on the Baroque, Barock als Kunst der Gegenreformation into Spanish, supplying an introduction. De estudios dedicados a Velázquez were issued in 1943 and 1944. After World War II, he completed his study on Goya in 1948 followed by Zuloaga in 1950. A book on methodological issues, La fundamentación y los problemas de la historia del arte (The merits and problems of art history) was published in 1951. In 1973 the Goya specialist Fred Licht described Lafuente Ferrari as the doyen of Spanish art history. 1985 saw the death of three eminent Spanish-subject art historians, Harold E. Wethey, José Gudiol, and Lafuente Ferrari.


Selected Bibliography

[complete bibliography on wrtings on Goya:] Bernardez Carmen. “Relación bibliográfica comentada de la obra del Profesor D. Enrique Lafuente Ferrari sobre Francisco de Goya.” in García de la Rasilla, Isabel. Calvo Serraller, Francisco, eds. Goya: nuevas visiones: homenaje a Enrique Lafuente Ferrari. Madrid: Amigos del Museo del Prado, 1987, pp. 32-37; Breve historia de la pintura española. Madrid: Unión poligráfica, s.a., 1934; and Carey, J.R. and MacLaren, Neil. Velazquez. New York, Oxford University Press, 1943; Goya: El dos de mayo y Los fusilamientos. Barcelona: Editorial Juventud, 1946; Goya: The Frescos in San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid. New York: Skira, 1955; Velázquez: Estudio biográfico y crítico. Geneva: Skira, 1960, English, Velazquez: Biographical and Critical Study. Lausanne: Skira/Cleveland: World Publishing, 1960; Goya, his Complete Etchings, Aquatints, and Lithographs. New York: Abrams, 1962; El Greco: the Expressionism of his Final Years. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1975.


Sources

Goya in Perspective. Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973, p. 170; Marías, Julián. “Evocacion de Enrique Lafuente Ferrari.” and Calvo Serraller, Francisco. “Don Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, Historiador del arte.” in García de la Rasilla, Isabel. Calvo Serraller, Francisco, eds. Goya: nuevas visiones: homenaje a Enrique Lafuente Ferrari. Madrid: Amigos del Museo del Prado, 1987, pp. 15-9, 21-31; [obituary:] Archivo Espanol de Arte 58 (October/December 1985): 464-466.




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Historian of Spanish art, particularly Goya. Lafuente was a disciple of Manuel Gómez Moreno. He was a professor at the Universidad Complutense y de la Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando In Madrid. His Breve hi

Lagrange, Léon

Full Name: Lagrange, Léon

Other Names:

  • Léon Lagrange

Gender: male

Date Born: 1828

Date Died: 1868

Home Country/ies: France


Overview

Lagrange wrote substantial monographs on Joseph Vernet. He contributed regularly to art periodicals such as the Gazette des Beaux-Arts and L’Artiste. He was a classmate of Hippolyte Taine. He worked in close contact with such figures as de Chennevières and de Montaiglon at the Archives de l’art français. Influenced by the writings of Ludovic Vitet (1802-1873), historian of art and first inspector of historical monuments, Lagrange applied the standards of the new historical sciences to the study of past art and helped establish art history in France as a modern discipline based on archival research. Like Taine’s, his art history paid heed to society as well as the individaul artist. Lagrange published his most durable work on the sculptor Pierre Puget published posthumously in 1868. Lagrange died at the age of forty followingr an usually productive career.



Sources

Jirat-Wasiutyński, Vojtěch. “Decentralising the History of French Art: Léon Lagrange on Provençal Art.” Oxford Art Journal 31 no. 2 (June 2008): 215-231;




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Lagrange wrote substantial monographs on Joseph Vernet. He contributed regularly to art periodicals such as the Gazette des Beaux-Arts and L’Artiste. He was a classmate of Hippolyte Taine. He worked in close

Lagrange, Marie Salomé

Full Name: Lagrange, Marie Salomé

Other Names:

  • Marie Salomé Lagrange

Gender: female

Date Born: unknown

Date Died: unknown

Home Country/ies: France

Subject Area(s): art theory and semiotics


Overview

Semiotic-approach to art historical writings.


Selected Bibliography

Analyse sémiologique et histoire de l’art: examen critique d’une classification. Paris: Klincksieck, 1973; and Bonnet, Charles. Les chemins de la “Mémoria”: nouvel essai d’analyse du discours archéologique. Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1978.


Sources

Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l’histoire de l’art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986 p. 350




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Semiotic-approach to art historical writings.

Lairesse, Gérard de

Full Name: Lairesse, Gérard de

Gender: male

Date Born: 1640

Date Died: 1711

Place Born: Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Home Country/ies: Belgium

Subject Area(s): Flemish (culture or style)


Overview

Vasari emulator, flemish


Selected Bibliography

Grondlegginge ter Teckenkonst. Amsterdam, 1701


Sources

Bazin 52




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Vasari emulator, flemish

Lamb, Winifred

Full Name: Lamb, Winifred

Gender: female

Date Born: 1894

Date Died: 1963

Place Born: London, Greater London, England, UK

Place Died: Borden Wood, West Sussex, UK

Home Country/ies: United Kingdom

Subject Area(s): archaeology and Classical

Career(s): curators


Overview

Classical art historian, museum curator and archaeologist. Lamb was born to Edmund Lamb (1863-1825), a member of Parliament, and Mabel Lamb (1862-1941). She was educated at home. In 1913 she entered Newnham College (a woman’s college founded in 1871), Cambridge University, where she read Classics. Graduating in 1917, she joined the British Naval Intelligence Department, the so-called “Room 40” where among her colleagues assisting the World War I effort was the classical archaeologist J. D. Beazley. Beazley clearly encouraged her in her scholarly work and subsequently named a vase painter in honor of her acumen (the Lamb painter). In 1920 she was part of the British School at Athens, participating in the excavation at Mycenae (which her parents funded) led by Alan J. B. Wace (1879-1957), as well as those at Sparta and Macedonia. That same year she was named honorary keeper of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, by Sydney Cockerell, a position she held until 1958. During her tenure at the Fitzwilliam, she organized the Disney and Clarke collections and launched a new prehistoric gallery. The gallery’s first major acquisition, the “Minoan goddess”, purchased in 1926 by Charles Theodore Seltman for the Museum, had its authenticity questioned, casting a shadow on Seltman and to a lesser degree, Lamb. In 1929 she published Greek and Roman Bronzes, a work that remained a standard for classical sculpture for most of her life. In 1930 and 1936 she edited two fascicules of the Cambridge holdings for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, publications which superseded the Catalogue of Vases (1897) of Ernest A. Gardner. A second major publication, Excavations at Thermi in Lesbos, 1936, made a reputation for her as a prehistorian. Lamb was the first woman archaeologist of the Anatolia excavations. During World War II, Lamb worked for the BBC in London and was severely injured when a V-2 rocket hit her apartment. She retired in 1958 and died seven years later. She is buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Midhurst in Sussex. She is not related to the British School at Athens field archaeologist Dorothy Lamb [Brooke, Lady Nicholson] (1887-1967).


Selected Bibliography

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. Oxford: University Press, 1930, 1936, fascicules 6,11; Greek and Roman Bronzes. New York: L. MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1929, reprinted Chicago: Argonaut, 1969; Excavations at Thermi in Lesbos. Cambridge, UK: The University Press, 1936.


Sources

Dictionary of National Biography; Butcher, K. and Gill, David W. J. “The Director, the Dealer, the Goddess and her Champions: the Acquisition of the Fitzwilliam Goddess.” American Journal of Archaeology 97 (1993): 383-401; [Obituaries:] Times (London) 18 September 1963; An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, p. 657; Gill, David W. J. “Winifred Lamb (1894-1963).” Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004, pp. 425-48.




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Classical art historian, museum curator and archaeologist. Lamb was born to Edmund Lamb (1863-1825), a member of Parliament, and Mabel Lamb (1862-1941). She was educated at home. In 1913 she entered Newnham College (a woman’s college founded in 18

Lamo, Pietro

Full Name: Lamo, Pietro

Gender: male

Date Born: 1518

Date Died: 1578

Place Born: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Place Died: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Home Country/ies: Italy

Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style) and Renaissance


Overview

Painter and art historian; author of the earliest guide to Bologna, Graticola di Bologna, written in the 1560’s but not published until 1844.






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Painter and art historian; author of the earliest guide to Bologna, Graticola di Bologna, written in the 1560’s but not published until 1844.

Laborde, Léon-Emmanuel-Simon-Joseph, Comte de

Full Name: Laborde, Léon-Emmanuel-Simon-Joseph, Comte de

Gender: male

Date Born: 1807

Date Died: 1869

Place Born: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Place Died: Fontenay-sur-Eure, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Home Country/ies: France

Career(s): archivists and curators


Overview

Archivist, curator, draughtsman and engraver. De Laborde was the son of count (Louis-Joseph-) Alexandre de Laborde and Marie-Anne-Thérèse de Sabatier de Cabre. His family was for generations associated with government public-service appointments. His grandfather, Jean Joseph de Laborde was a Privy Councillor and banker to Louis XV (and guillotined in 1794). Alexandre de Laborde was a Privy Councillor and deputy for the Seine and Oise district. Léon de Laborde’s education also focused on a political career. In 1824 his father lost his assignment and he and his seventeen-year-old son traveled throughout the Middle East, from Damascus to Cairo. There Léon met the engineer Louis Linant de Bellefonds (1799-1883) The two Frenchmen decided to set up an expedition to the newly-discovered site of Petra with a view to making drawings of the monuments. The team of Linant and de Laborde spent more time at the site than any previous Western visitors, documenting the remains through drawings. After his return, De Laborde served as an embassy secretary in Rome, London, and Cassel. In 1830 he published a detailed day-to-day report of his 1828 travel, Voyage de l’Arabie Pétrée, richly illustrated with lithographs of his own drawings as well as a number of those by Linant. It includes various maps and plans, and an introductory essay on different aspects of the region, such as travel, pilgrimage, and trade. An engraver himself, he wrote a study on the history of mezzotint engraving, Histoire de la gravure en manière noire (1839) and another on the discovery of printing, Nouvelles recherches sur la découverte de l’imprimerie (1840). In 1841 he was elected Deputy of the town of étampes, succeeding his father. He married Louise-Félicie Cousin-Corbin. In 1842 he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. In 1847 he was appointed curator of the Department of Antiquities at the Louvre, and a year later he became the curator of the collections of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. His research of the archives of Burgundy led to important art historical studies covering the period 1384-1482. Among these, his three-volume publication on the dukes of Burgundy, Les ducs de Bourgogne (1849-1852) deserves to be singled out. His pioneering study on sixteenth-century French Renaissance painting (1850 and 1855), La renaissance des arts à la cour de France, is also based on archival sources. De Laborde was involved in the contemporary art scene, such as the 1851 London World’s Fair and the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle. In 1857 he was appointed general director of the Archives de l’Empire. In 1868, the year before he died, he became a member of the Senate. A son, Alexandre-Léon-Joseph (1853-1944), was a specialist of illuminated manuscripts. Laborde is among the first western explorers of the region around Petra. His travelogue Voyage de l’Arabie Pétrée provides a remarkable contribution to the documentation of the archaeological sites of Petra. His archival research was pioneering as well. Louis-Charles-Léon Courajod, who also later held Laborde’s position at the Louvre, maintained a special admiration for De Laborde’s work as curator.


Selected Bibliography

Voyage de l’Arabie Pétrée. Paris: Girard, 1830; Histoire de la gravure en manière noire. Paris: Impr. de J. Didot l’aîné, 1839; Nouvelles recherches sur la découverte de l’imprimerie. Paris: Techener, 1840; De l’organisation des bibliothèques dans Paris. Paris: A Franck, 1845-1846; Les ducs de Bourgogne, études sur les lettres, les arts et l’industrie pendant le XVe siècle et plus particulièrement dans les Pays-Bas et le duché de Bourgogne. 3 vols. Paris: Plon, 1849-1852 ; La renaissance des arts à la cour de France: études sur le seizième siècle. 2 vols. Paris: L. Potier, 1850-1855. Les comptes des bâtiments du roi (1528-1571) suivis de documents inédits sur les châteaux royaux et les beaux-arts au 16e siècle, recueillis et mis en ordre par le marquis Léon de Laborde. Paris: J. Baur 1877-80; and Linant de Bellefonds, Louis Maurice Adolphe. [Augé, Christian, and Linant de Bellefonds, Pascale, eds.] Pétra retrouvé. Voyage de l’Arabie Pétrée, 1828. Paris: Pygmalion-Gérard Watelet, 1994.


Sources

Nagler, G. K. Graf Léon de Laborde Die Monogrammisten 4 (1871): nr. 1170, pp. 382-383; Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l’histoire de l’art: de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, p. 482; De Morembert, T. Laborde (Léon-Emmanuel-Simon-Joseph De). Dictionnaire de Biographie Française 18 (1994) p. 1373-1374; www.jordanjubilee.com/history/laborde-linant.htm.



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Archivist, curator, draughtsman and engraver. De Laborde was the son of count (Louis-Joseph-) Alexandre de Laborde and Marie-Anne-Thérèse de Sabatier de Cabre. His family was for generations associated with government public-service appointments.

Lacerda, Aaron de

Full Name: Lacerda, Aaron de

Gender: male

Date Born: 1890

Date Died: 1947

Home Country/ies: Portugal

Subject Area(s): Portuguese (culture or style)

Institution(s): Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto


Overview

historian of Portuguese art


Selected Bibliography

Historia da Arte em Portugal. vol I. Porto, 1942. [vol II by several authors, 1948; vol III by Raynaldo dos Santos, 1953]


Sources

Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l’histoire de l’art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986 p. 450



Contributors: Lee Sorensen


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Lee Sorensen. "Lacerda, Aaron de." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/lacerdaa/.


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historian of Portuguese art

Laclotte, Michel

Full Name: Laclotte, Michel

Gender: male

Date Born: 1923

Home Country/ies: France


Overview

Louvre director 1987-1994. As a school boy during the German occupation of Paris, Laclotte resolved to be a museums person. During the war, he traveled with his family to provincial museums, redesigning on paper how he would install the works he saw. After the liberation, Laclotte was amazed by Picasso’s works at the Salon d’Automne in 1944. When the paintings returned to the Louvre from the war’s safekeeping, he was appalled at how curator René Huyghe hung the works in no apparent order. As curator of painting, he mounted major Poussin show of 1960. He ordered an inventory of provincial French museums, unifying the thinking of what a country’s art should be thought of. Laclotte lobbied and succeeded in having the Gare d’Orsay rennovated into a museum to replace the Jeu de Paume, completed in 1986. He was appointed director of the Louvre in 1987. He consolidated the Louvre’s spaces directly under his control (for years the museum’s ballroom had been used as a state reception area). Laclotte retired in 1994, succeeded by Pierre Rosenberg.



Sources

Russell, John. “The Man Who Reinvented the Louvre; At one of the worst moments of the German occupation of France, he decided to ‘make museums.” New York Times June 6, 1993, p. H39




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Louvre director 1987-1994. As a school boy during the German occupation of Paris, Laclotte resolved to be a museums person. During the war, he traveled with his family to provincial museums, redesigning on paper how he would install the works he s

Ladendorf, Heinz

Full Name: Ladendorf, Heinz

Gender: male

Date Born: 1909

Date Died: 1992

Place Born: Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Place Died: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Home Country/ies: Germany


Overview



Sources

Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 235-7.




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