Jean Marie Augustin Charbonneaux (15 January 1895 – 21 February 1969) was a 20th-century French archaeologist.

He was a member of the French School at Athens from 1921 to 1925 and of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres from 1962. He was successively curator, chief curator, Inspector General of the Museums of France, and professor of Greek and Roman archeology at the École du Louvre from 1930 to 1965.

Jean Charbonneaux

Publications (selection) 1925: with K. Gottlob: La Tholos, 2: Relevés et restaurations. In: Fouilles de Delphes, 2. Topographie et architecture. E. de Boccard, Paris. 1929: L'art égéen. G. van Oest, Paris and Brussels 1936: Les terres cuites grecques. L. Reynaud, Paris. 1939: La sculpture grecque archaïque. Éditions de Cluny, Paris; 1912–1945: La sculpture grecque classique. La Guilde du livre, Lausanne; 1948: L'art au siècle d'Auguste. Guilde du Livre, Lausanne. 1949: Les sculptures de Rodin. F. Hazan, Paris. 1958: Les bronzes grecs. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris. 1968: with Roland Martin and François Villard: Grèce archaïque (620–480 avant J.-C.). Gallimard, (Univers des formes. volume 14). 1969: with Roland Martin and François Villard: Grèce classique (480–330 avant J.-C.). Gallimard, (Univers des formes, volume 16). 1970: with Roland Martin and François Villard: Grèce hellénistique (330–50 avant J.-C.). Gallimard, Paris 1970 (Univers des formes, volume 18. 1970: with Pierre Pradel: Architecture et sculpture des origines à nos jours. 4 volumes. Fernand Nathan, Paris.

Jean Charbonneaux

Bibliography

P. Devambez: Jean Charbonneaux (1895–1969). In: Revue Archeologique. 1969, (p. 119–120). G. Cart in: La Revue du Louvre et des Musees de France. Band 19, Heft 2, 1969, (p. 76–78). Pierre Demargne: Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Jean Charbonneaux, membre de l'Académie. In: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, volume 114, 1970, (p. 116–126) (online).

Jean Charbonneaux

External links

Biography in Dictionary of Art Historians.

Classical archaeologists

Members of the French School at Athens

Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

People associated with the Louvre

People from Côte-d'Or

1895 births

1969 deaths

Road incident deaths in France

20th-century French archaeologists