Titulaire de la première chaire d'histoire byzantine à la Sorbonne - Samuel Provost - Traduction en anglais

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[...] Pendant les quatorze années de son enseignement à Paris, Diehl multiplie les publications d'art byzantin, telles L'église et les mosaïques du couvent de Saint-Luc en Phocide (1889), longtemps restée la seule monographie sur cet important monastère, ou encore les Mosaïques byzantines de Nicée (1892), ainsi que toute la série de ses travaux sur les monuments d'Italie du Sud. Pourtant, ils ne donnent pas lieu, semble-t-il, à des conférences, comme si l'art pictural byzantin était un sujet trop exotique pour son public. Samuel PROVOST Holder of the first chair of Byzantine history at the Sorbonne: One of the guests at the First International Congress of Byzantine Studies, held in Bucharest in April 1924, was Charles Diehl. [...]

[...] Titulaire de la première chaire d'histoire byzantine à la Sorbonne - Samuel Provost - Traduction en anglais Titulaire de la première chaire d'histoire byzantine à la Sorbonne Charles Diehl au milieu des congressistes du 1er Congrès international d'études byzantines, Bucarest, avril 1924. Épreuve sur papier d'une photographie argentique x 160 mm, université de Paris, Archives Perdrizet, APP XXI. Seule la Sorbonne peut offrir à Charles Diehl la possibilité d'enseigner sa spécialité scientifique, alors que les études byzantines sont encore embryonnaires en France: en 1899, il y est chargé d'un cours complémentaire et quitte Paris tout en restant titulaire de sa chaire. [...]

[...] This position had been held by the ancient History department at the University of Lyon until his official appointment as a professor of Byzantine History at the Sorbonne in 1907; two years later, it became the chair of Archaeology and Art history for Paul Perdrizet. Diehl was the driving force behind the success of the first Classical archaeology course offered by the Paris faculty. His outstanding lecturing abilities, together with his creative use of photographic projections of monuments and archeological sites, were further boosted by his writing skills. [...]

[...] Diehl produced many works on Byzantine art during his fourteen years as a teacher in Paris. These included "The Church and the Mosaics of the Convent of Saint Luke in Phocis" (1889), which for a long time was the only thorough examination of this important monastery, and "Byzantine Mosaics of Nicaea" (1892), in addition to several studies on the monuments of southern Italy. Even though he produced a great deal, the subject of Byzantine visual art was perhaps too exotic for his audience because of how infrequently conferences resulted from his works. [...]