Édouard Didron (1836-1902) was a French stained glass artist and art writer.
Biography
Early life Édouard Amedée Didron was born on 13 October 1836 in Paris.Dictionary of Art Historians: Didron, Adolphe Napoléon His father was Mr Fiot and his mother, Ms Didron. His uncle, the archeologist and art historian Adolphe Napoléon Didron (1806-1867), adopted him.
Career He designed the stained glass in the Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in Marseille.Dominique Auzias, Marseille 2013 Petit Futé, Le Petit Futé, 4 Apr 2013, p. 388 He also designed stained glass in the Église Sainte-Rosalie in Paris, the Église Saint-Christophe in Cergy, the Église Saint-Ouen in Le Tronquay, the Église Notre-Dame in Neufchâtel-en-Bray, the Cathédrale Saint-Maclou de Pontoise in Pontoise, the Basilica of St. Sernin in Toulouse, the Eglise Notre Dame de Carentan and the Cathédrale Saint-Front de Périgueux in Périgueux.
Additionally, he wrote many books about art. He denounced the "bastardization" of Gothic art, which meant the decoration of bars and private residences with medieval and mock-medieval works.Elizabeth Nicole Emery, Laura Morowitz, Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin-de-siècle France, Ashgate Publishing, 2003, p. 119 He was also the editor of Annales Archéologiques from 1867 to 1872.
Death He died on 14 April 1902 in Paris.
List of Works
France Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône Cathedrale Saint-Front, Périgueux, Dordogne Eglise Saint-Ouen, Le Tronquay, Eure Basilica de Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne Sainte-Roslie, Paris, Île-de-France Eglise Notre-Dame, Neufchâtel-en-Bray, Seine-Maritime Saint-Christophe Church, Créteil, Val-de-Marne Cathedrale Saint-Maclou, Pontoise, Val-d'Oise Église Saint Germain des Prés, Paris : dated 1894, in the chapel Saint Joseph in the ambulatory
United Kingdom St. Mary's Church, Feltwell, Norfolk
Bibliography Nicolas-Marie-Joseph Chapuy, Édouard Didron, Allemagne monumentale et pittoresque: ou ses vues et ses monuments (accompagnés de notes historiques) (Goupil & Vibert, 1845).Google Books Édouard Didron, Vitraux du Grand-Andely, (Librairie archéologique de Victor Didron, 1863).Google Books Édouard Didron, Les vitraux à l'expossition universelle de 1867 (Librairie archéologique de Victor Didron, 1868).Google BooksBibliothèque nationale de France Édouard Didron, Quelques Mots sur l'Art Chrétien à propos de l'Image du Sacré-Cœur (1874).Google Books Édouard Didron, Louis Clémandot, Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1878 À Paris. Groupe III. Classe 19. Rapport Sur Les Cristaux, la Verrerie, Et Les Vitraux. (1880).Google Books Édouard Didron, Catalogue de la bibliothèque iconographique et archéologique de feu (Emile-Paul, 1903, 87 pages).Google Books
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