DOROW, Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Wilhelm. Königsberg 22.3.1790 — Halle 16.12.1846. German Antiquarian Scholar. A precursor of Indian art history who, according to Mode, did not share the common contempt of Indian art of his times. Son of Friedrich Dorow and Sophie Reichardt. Lost early his father, educated in Marienburg (Malbork in…
DONATI, Girolamo. Perugia 3.3.1857 — Perugia 4.12.1901. Italian Indologist. Student of De Gubernatis at Florence. For a while in Perugia (1885). Then libero docente di sanscrito at R. Istituto di Studi superiori di Firenze, from 1890 in charge of Sanskrit teaching when De Gubernatis moved to Rome. Also conservator of…
D’JAKONOVA, Natal’ja Vasil’evna. St.Petersburg 28.11.(11.12.)1907 — 14.7.1996. Russian Iranian scholar. Daughter of an official. Graduated 1930 from Leningrad. Kand. filologičeskih nauk 1946. In 1931 naučnyj sotrudnik in Ukrainian Oriental Institute (?) in Harkov (Kharkiv), in 1932-35 and 1942-45 at Oriental Institute of Soviet Academy, in 1935-42 and 1945-54 at Hermitage.…
D’JAKONOV, Mihail Mihajlovič. St.Petersburg 13.(26.)6.1907 — Moscow 8.6.1954. Russian Historian of the Ancient World. Son of Mihail A. D’jakonov, an official and author. From 1921 grew up in Norway. Studies in Oslo (1924-26, under Morgenstierne) and Leningrad (Bartol’d, Frejman), graduated 1930. Kand. ist. nauk 1937, Dr. ist. nauk 1946. In…
DIEZ, Ernst. Lölling, Kärnten 27.7.1878 — Vienna 8.7.1961. Austrian Art Historian. Cousin and friend of composer Anton Webern. Studies at Graz and Vienna under Strzygowski. Ph.D. 1903 with diss. on late classic / early Christian art. Worked in museums in Vienna and 1908-11 Berlin. In 1912-14 travelled in the Near East,…
DEYDIER, Henri. 1922 — near Luang Prabang 4.12.1954. French Archaeologist and Art Historian. Began studies under Przyluski and Maspéro, from 1940 active in resistance. From 1944 renewed studies of Indology (under Foucher) and South-East and East Asian studies in Paris, diplom of É.P.H.É. in 1950. From 1950 at É.F.E.O. in…
DE FOREST (DeForest), Lockwood, II. New York City 23.6.1850 — Santa Barbara, Cal. 3.4.1932. U.S. Artist and Designer interested in Indian and Tibetan Art. Grew up in a wealthy family in New York, son of Henry Grant De Forest (1820–1889) and Julia Mary Weeks. After studies in New York (no…
DALTON, Ormonde Maddock. Cardiff 30.1.1866 — Holford, Somerset 2.2.1945. British Art Historian and Classical Scholar, a Specialist of Early Christian Art. Son of Thomas Masters Dalton (1830–1908), a lawyer, and Emily Mansford, educated at Harrow and at New College, Oxford. Travelled in France, Germany, Austria (studied under Strzygowski), and India.…
CRAVEN, Roy Curtis, Jr. Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama 29.7.1924 — 30.5.1996. U.S. Artist and Art Historian, also painter, sculpturer and photographer. Son of R. C. Craven, Sr. (1891–1968) and Edna Pearl Morris. In 1942-46 served in U.S. Air Force. Studies at University of Tennessee in Chattanooga (B.A. 1949), Art Students League…
CORAL-RÉMUSAT, Gilberte, comtesse de (née Gilberte Joanne Marie de Rémusat). Paris 17.12.1903 — Lausanne 18.10.1943. Mme. French Art Historian of South and South-East Asia. The only daughter of Pierre, comte de Rémusat (1864–1946), a politician, and Germaine Stieldorff (1881–1966), grandniece of —> Abel-Rémusat (1788–1832). In 1928-29 visited French South-East Asia, especially Angkor and…