Charles Bayet
(May 25, 1849 - September 17, 1918) |
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Charles Bayet |
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Liege |
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Belgian |
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May 25, 1849 |
| Death: |
September 17, 1918 |
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Biography
| During his early career Bayet spent some years at the French schools of archaeology at Athens and Rome (1871-74), where he developed a special interest in Byzantine studies. In 1874 he was sent with Father Duchesne on an archaeological expedition to Mt Athos. Their study of the mosaics, inscriptions and manuscripts found there and elsewhere in Greece was published in 1876. Bayet became Professor of the Faculty of Literature at Lyon in 1876, but he was compelled to widen his field and cover medieval art and history, since Byzantine art and archaeology were still considered very narrow and negligible subjects. From 1896 he took a succession of administrative posts and was forced to give up his research altogether. Despite the brevity of his career as a Byzantinist, Bayet contributed works of meticulous scholarship that rejected the hypothesizing of previous scholars, laid solid groundwork for further study and established him as master in his field. The culmination of his research, and the first complete survey of the subject, was his Recherches (1879). In later years he produced a number of general works on the history of art which were aimed chiefly at schoolchildren; in them he expressed the need to include the history of art in teaching programmes. Writingswith L. Duchesne: Memoire sur une mission au Mont Athos (Paris, 1876)Recherches pour servir a lhistoire de la peinture et de la sculpture chretiennes en Orient avant la querelle des iconoclastes (Paris, 1879)LArt byzantin (Paris, 1883)Precis dhistoire de lart (Paris, 1886, rev. 2/1894) |
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