Adolphe-Napoléon Didron

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Adolphe Napoleon Didron

Adolphe-Napoléon Didron (born March 13, 1806 in Hautvillers ( Département Marne ), † November 13, 1867 in Paris ) was a French archaeologist .

Didron first studied law , but after he became aware of Victor Hugo's novel Notre Dame de Paris , switched to archeology, which mainly extended to Christian art of the Middle Ages and Christian symbolism .

From 1844 he published the journal Annales archéologiques , which he ran until his death and which became the main organ for art archeology of the Middle Ages in France. An article by the architect Jean-Baptiste Lassus appeared in the first year, in which, using the example of the restoration of the parish church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris, it is shown that the secret of stained glass was not lost in the 19th century. Together with Didron, Lassus designed a glass painting for the Passion Window in 1839 based on models from the 13th century, with the dimensions and the lead netting of medieval windows being taken over and wherever models were missing, suitable motifs in reliefs or miniatures were sought. The glass painting was carried out by the chemist M.-E.-F. Reboulleau, who had published instructions for stained glass in 1844 with the book Nouveau manuel complet de la peinture sur verre , and the glass painter Louis Steinheil.

  • Cardboard box from Lassus and Didron

  • Implementation of Reboulleau and Steinheil

Didron had founded a special archeology bookstore in 1845, an institute for glass painting in 1849 and a factory for bronze goods in the style of the Middle Ages in 1858 .

His nephew and adopted son Édouard Didron took over the glass painting workshop after his death.

Works

  • Histoire de Dieu, iconographie des personnes divines (1844)
  • Iconography chrétienne grecque et latine (with Paul Durand , 1845)
  • Iconography of the chapitaux du palais ducal de Venise (with Burges , 1857)
  • Manuel des oeuvres de bronze et d'orfévrerie du moyen-age (1859)
  • Verrières de la Rédemption à Notre Dame de Châlons sur Marne (1863)
  • Monograph de la cathédrale de Chartres (1866)

literature

  • Catherine Brisac et al. Jean-Michel Leniaud: Adolphe-Napoléon Didron ou les media au service de l'art chrétien . In: Revue de l'Art , 77, 1987, pp. 33-42.

Remarks

  1. ^ Jean-Baptiste Lassus: Peinture sur verre . In: Annales archéologiques . tape 1 , no. 1 , 1844, pp. 16–21 ( digitized on Gallica ).
  2. ↑ Quotation: “Le vitrail dont nous donnons aujourd'hui la gravure a été exécuté à Paris pour l'eglise Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois; c'est un vitrail purement archéologique et fait, en 1839, dans le but essentiel de prouver qu'au XIX e siècle le secret de la peinture sur verre n'était pas perdu. » Digitized on Gallica
  3. ↑ M.-E.-F. Reboulleau and M.-Désiré Magnier: Nouveau manuel complet de la peinture sur verre . Librairie encylopédique de Roret, Paris 1844 ( archive.org ).
  4. ↑ Elgin Vaassen: Pictures on glass: glass paintings between 1780 and 1870 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1997, ISBN 3-422-06206-8 , p. 81-83 .
personal data
SURNAME Didron, Adolphe-Napoléon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Hautvillers
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1867
Place of death Paris