WRITER

René Huyghe

1906 - 1997

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René Huyghe (3 May 1906 Arras, France – 5 February 1997, Paris) was a French writer on the history, psychology and philosophy of art. He was also a curator at the Louvre's department of paintings (from 1930), a professor at the Collège de France director of the Musée Jacquemart-André, and, beginning in 1960 a member of the Académie Française. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Huyghe has received more than 30,859 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. René Huyghe is the 3,679th most popular writer (down from 3,524th in 2019), the 3,675th most popular biography from France (down from 3,433rd in 2019) and the 467th most popular French Writer.

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Notable Works

La peinture française
French Painting
1939
Dialogue avec le visible
Painting, Art, History
1955
Art treasures of the Louvre
Musée du Louvre, Art, Catalogs
1951
Delacroix
1963
Larousse encyclopedia of Byzantine and medieval art
History, Medieval Art, Byzantine Art
1963
Van Gogh
Impressionism (Art), Criticism and interpretation
1958

Among WRITERS

Among writers, René Huyghe ranks 3,679 out of 7,302. Before him are John Flanagan, Helen Churchill Candee, Gyula Krúdy, Gaston Rébuffat, William Robertson Smith, and Milán Füst. After him are Berdi Kerbabayev, Nichita Stănescu, Viktor Nekrasov, Concepción Arenal, Wang Changling, and Dmitry Grigorovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, René Huyghe ranks 200. Before him are Charles Malik, Renate Müller, Walter Legge, Yakov Malik, Penn Nouth, and Óscar Domínguez. After him are Harry Hammond Hess, Alexandre Trauner, A. J. P. Taylor, Roman Karmen, Axel Cadier, and František Svoboda. Among people deceased in 1997, René Huyghe ranks 164. Before him are Misael Pastrana Borrero, Léon Poliakov, Baltazar, Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Salvador Artigas, and Sanford Meisner. After him are Georges Guétary, James A. Michener, Brian Connolly, Bengt Danielsson, Georgy Shonin, and Robert Pinget.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Huyghe ranks 3,675 out of 6,770. Before him are Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), Guy Ropartz (1864), Claude Fleury (1640), Gaston Rébuffat (1921), Charles Duclerc (1812), and Eugène Belgrand (1810). After him are Félix Tisserand (1845), Georges Urbain (1872), Étienne Mattler (1905), Léon Serpollet (1858), Adolphe Grisel (1872), and Jean-Pierre Ricard (1944).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, René Huyghe ranks 467. Before him are Marc Levy (1961), Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé (1599), Nicholas Rémy (1530), François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588), Guillaume Musso (1974), and Gaston Rébuffat (1921). After him are Albert Aurier (1865), Christiane Rochefort (1917), Jules Lemaître (1853), Jules Janin (1804), Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807), and Henry Bataille (1872).

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