Background
Chastel, André Adrien was born on November 15, 1912 in Paris. Son of Adrien Marie and Marie Isabelle (Morin) Chastel.
( This richly illustrated study of the sack as a cultural...)
This richly illustrated study of the sack as a cultural and artistic phenomenon reveals the ambiguities of preceding events and the traumatic contrast between the flourishing world of art under Clement VII and the city as it existed after the troops of Emperor Charles V had looted Rome in 1527.
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Chastel, André Adrien was born on November 15, 1912 in Paris. Son of Adrien Marie and Marie Isabelle (Morin) Chastel.
Student Ecole Normale Supe Rieure, 1933. Student in agregation des lettres, 1937. Student, Doctorat e s lettres, 1951.
Assistant Institute Art and Archaeology, Paris, 1945—1948. Director d'Etudes, Ecole pratique des Haute Etudes (IV section), 1951—1981. Professor Sorbonne, 1955—1970, College de France, Paris, 1970—1984.
Vice president International Committee Art History, 1969—1985. President French Committee Art History, 1970—1977. With French Army, 1939-1940.
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Author: (book) L'art italien, 1947, English edit, 1963, Art et Humanisme a Florence, 1949, Marsile Ficin et l'Art, 1975, La Renaissance Meridionale, 1965, L'Image dans le Miroir, 1980, The Sack of Rome, 1983, Musca Depicta, 1984, Cardinal Louis d'Aragon, 1986, Italian edition, 1987. Editor: editor Revue de l'Art, 1969-1988.
Member of Racing Club France, American Association for the Advancement of Science, L'Institut Acade mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Married Paule-Marie Grand de Saint-Avit, 1942. Children: Louis, Arnaud(deceased), Laurent.