Bertrand Jestaz

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Bertrand Marc Jestaz (born February 2, 1939 in Fontainebleau , Seine-et-Marne department ) is a French art historian who deals with art of the Renaissance and French classicism.

Jestaz studied at the École nationale des chartes , where he graduated as an archivist and paleographer in 1962 with a thesis on Jules Hardouin-Mansart , and at the École du Louvre . After successfully passing the national competition for the French museums, he was at the École française de Rome (later he was co-author of an art history book about the Palazzo Farnese, where the school is located). He became a curator at the Louvre , where he organized exhibitions on French jewelery, Giulio Romano (and his tapestries, Grand Palais 1978) and the Fontainebleau School (Grand Palais 1972/73 with Jacques Thirion). In 1978 he succeeded André Chastel as professor of Renaissance art at the École pratique des hautes études (Section 4). He was also a professor at the Ècole du Louvre and the Ècole des chartes. In 2003 he retired.

In addition to general representations of the Italian Renaissance, sculpture and Renaissance architecture, he wrote special studies, in particular on Renaissance bronzes (such as Benvenuto Cellini in France, Riccio, Desiderio da Firenze, Severo da Ravenna, catalog of bronze plaques in the Museum of Belluno ), on the history of collections in Venice, Mantua, Padua and Rome.

Fonts

  • L'Art de la Renaissance , Paris: Mazenod, 1984, 2nd edition 2007 (the book received the Prix du Livre d'Art du Syndicat National des Antiquaires in 2007)
  • with others L'Italie de la Renaissance , Fayard 1990
  • Le Voyage d'Italie de Robert de Cotte , Paris: De Boccard, 1966
  • with others: Le Palais Farnèse , Rome: École française de Rome, 1977–1994 (including on the inventory of the Palazzo Farnese 1994)
  • L'Hôtel et l'Église des Invalides , Paris: CNMHS-Picard, 1990
  • La Renaissance de l'architecture: de Brunelleschi à Palladio , Découvertes Gallimard series (nº 242), Paris: Gallimard, 1995
    • English translation: Architecture of the Renaissance: From Brunelleschi to Palladio , New York: Abrams Books & London: Thames & Hudson, 1996
  • Editor: Art et artistes en France, de la Renaissance à la Révolution , Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, Volume 161, Issue 1, January – June 2003, pp. 1–407 (Festschrift, in it by Jestaz: Benvenuto Cellini et la cour de France (1540-1545) )
  • Jules Hardouin-Mansart , 2 volumes, Paris: Picard, 2008
  • La chapelle Zen à Saint-Marc de Venise: d'Antonio à Tullio Lombardo , Stuttgart: Steiner 1986
  • Le livre journal de la fabrique de la chapelle Salviati à Saint-Marc de Florence, 1579-1594 , Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, 1995.
  • with Alain Erlande-Brandenburg Le château de Vincennes , Picard 1989

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SURNAME Jestaz, Bertrand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jestaz, Bertrand Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontainebleau