Gudiol, José

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.