Full Name: Raczynski, Athanasius, Graf
Gender: male
Date Born: 1788
Date Died: 1874
Place Born: Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Place Died: Berlin, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Portuguese (culture or style)
Overview
early historian of Portuguese art; diplomat in Lisbon (1842-1845); commissioned by the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Berlin to make a detailed survey of Portuguese. Born in Posen, Prussia, which is present-day, Poznań, Poland.
Selected Bibliography
Les Arts au Portugal. Paris, 1846; Dictionnaire historico-artisticque du Portugal. Paris, 1847.
Sources
Bazin 447; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 312-14.