Gudiol, José

Full Name
Gudiol, José
Other Names
José Gudiol Ricart
Gender
Date Born
1904
Date Died
1985
Home Country
Overview

Historian of Spanish art. Two important works appeared by him in 1948; he and José Pijoán y Soteras issued their Las pinturas murales románicas de Cataluña and he and Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño published their Arquitectura y escultura románicas, the latter for the important Ars Hispaniae series. Gudiol introduced the Spanish symbologist Juan Eduardo Cirlot to Gothic art. 1985 saw the death of three emenent Spanish-subject art historians, Harold E. Wethey, Enrique Lafuente Ferrari and Gudiol.

Selected Bibliography
Goya. 4 vols. Barcelona, 1970; and Pijoán, José. Las pinturas murales románicas de Cataluña. Barcelona: Alpha 1948; and Gaya Nuño, Juan Antonio. Arquitectura y escultura románicas. Madrid: Editorial Plus-Ultra 1948.
Sources
Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986 p. 443; [obituary:] Archivo Espanol de Arte 58 (October/December 1985): 466-467.