Villard de Honnecourt

Villard de Honnecourt

male
Villard de Honnecourt lived in 13th century France and may have been an itinerant master-builder of Picardy in northern France. His fame rests...

Henri-Jean Martin

male, deceased (2007)
Henri-Jean Martin was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and printing. He was a...
Bill Henson

Bill Henson

male, 54 years old
Bill Henson (b. 1955 in Melbourne) is an Australian photographic contemporary artist. Much of his art deals with the subject of adolescence....

Quatremère de Quincy

male, deceased (1849)
Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy was a French archaeologist and writer on art, born in Paris. He was involved in the troubles of the F...
Pierre Pithou

Pierre Pithou

male, deceased (1596)
Pierre Pithou (November 1, 1539 - November 1, 1596), was a French lawyer and scholar. He is also known as Petrus Pithoeus. He was born at Troyes....
Laurence Gartel

Laurence Gartel

male, 53 years old
Laurence Gartel, born June 5 1956, is considered a pioneer of Digital Art. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Joan Whitney...

Salomon Munk

male, deceased (1867)
Salomon Munk was a Jewish - French orientalist. He received his first instruction in Hebrew from his father, an official of the Jewish community;...
Marcelle Lalou

Marcelle Lalou

female, deceased (1967)
Marcelle Lalou (1890-1967) was a 20th century French Tibetologist. Her major contribution to Tibetology is the cataloguing of the entire Pelliot...
Olivier Basselin

Olivier Basselin

male, deceased (1450)
Olivier Basselin (c. 1400-c. 1450), French poet, was born in the Val-de-Vire in Normandy about the end of the 14th century. He was by occupation a...

Alfred Morel-Fatio

male, deceased (1924)
Alfred Paul Victor Morel-Fatio was the leading French Hispanist of his time, born at Strasbourg and educated at École des chartes, Paris. From 1...