Charles Blanc
See also: White
Charles Blanc , born the November 17th 1813 with Castrate and dead the January 17th 1882 with Paris, is a historian, critic art and engraver French.
Brother of White Louis, he is editor association of the Gazette of the Art schools . In 1867, it paints the painting the Star of the colors to promote a scientific approach of the visible one: it thus has the three primary colors (red, yellow, blue) and the three mixed colors (orange, green, purple).
He is elected member of the Académie of the fine arts in 1868 and member of the French Academy in 1876. He is professor of esthetics and history of art to the Collège de France of 1878 with 1882.
Star of the colors
Principal works
- From Paris to Venice, notes with the pencil (1857)
- the Treasury of curiosity, drawn from the catalogs of sale from tables, drawings, prints, books, marbles, bronzes, ivories, terra cotta, stained glasses, medals, weapons, porcelains, pieces of furniture, enamels, lacquers and other objets d'art, with various notes and historical and biographical notes (1857-58). Republication: 1999.
- the Work complete of Rembrandt, catalogs reasoned of all the etchings of the Master and his paintings (1859-61)
- Histoire of the painters of all the schools (14 vol.) (1861-76)
- Grammaire of arts of the drawing. Structure, sculpture, painting, gardens, engraving, etching, camaieu, lithography (1867)
- Art in the ornament and clothing (1875)
- Voyage from High-Egypt, observations on the Egyptian arts and Arab (1876)
- Grammaire of decorative arts. Interior decoration of the house (1881)
- the Sculpture (1888)
- History of the artistic rebirth in Italy (1889)
External bond
- Biographical note of the French Academy
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