See also: Chastel

Andre Chastel , born with Paris the November 15th 1912 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine the July 18th 1990, is a historian of French art, author of an important work on the Italian Renaissance.

Professor with the Collège de France, where it is titular pulpit of art and civilization of the Rebirth in Italy, of 1970 with 1984, it is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1975.

Publications

• Italian art , 1954-1955 (republications: 1982,1989,1995; Italian translation: 1957-1958, English translation: 1963)
• Art and Humanisme with Florence at the time of Laurent Splendid the , 1962
• the Large Workshop of Italy, 1460-1500 , 1965
• southernmost Rebirth, 1460-1500 , 1965
• the Myth of the Rebirth, 1420-1520 , 1969
• the Crisis of the Rebirth, 1520-1600 , 1969 Chronic
• of Italian painting to the Rebirth, 1250-1580 , 1983
• the Famous Misunderstood one, Mona LISA , 1988
• History of French art , 4 volumes, 1992-1996
• Pala or the Italian Retable of the origins with 1500 , 1993
• Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the best painters sculptors and architects , translation and edition with accompanying notes of Quickly the under the direction of Andre Chastel, Paris, Shepherd-Levrault, coll “Arts”, 12 vol., 1981-1989. Rééd., Actes Sud, coll “Thesaurus”, 2 vol., 2005.

External bonds

• Official site of the Center Andre Chastel