Louis Courajod
Louis Charles Jean Courajod (22 February 1841
Biography
Courajod was trained as a lawyer, then as an historian at the
Fontevrault
In 1874 he began his career at the
Carolingians. In 1887, he was appointed a professor at the École du Louvre, teaching Medieval and Renaissance sculpture; he was director of the department from 1893. Among his students were André Michel, who succeeded him at the Louvre, and Paul Vitry
].
Courajod was a regular contributor to the Commission des monuments historiques and was a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France.
Courajod introduced the term "International Gothic" to describe the Late Gothic movement expressed in sculptures and other media.
A commemorative memoir, Louis Courajod, un historien de l'art français, was published by Courajod's former pupil, Albert Marignan, in 1896.
Further reading
- Laura Morowitz, "Une Guerre sainte contre l'académisme: Louis Courajod, the Louvre, and the Barbaric Middle Ages", in: The Year's Work in Medievalism #15 (2002), Jesse Swan and Richard Utz (Eds.)
Notes
- ^ Albert Marignan, "Le Moyen Age", Bulletin Mensuel d'Histoire Et de Philologie, Vol.9, 1896
- ^ Dictionary of Art historians: "Courajod, Louis"
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