Georges Marçais
Georges Marçais (Rennes, 11 March 1876 – Paris, 20 May 1962)[1][2] was a French orientalist, historian, and scholar of Islamic art and architecture who specialized in the architecture of North Africa.
He initially trained as a painter and writer but after visiting his brother, William Marçais (1872–1956),[3] an orientalist who directed a school in Algeria, he turned instead to scholarly studies.[4][5] After writing his thesis on Berbers in North Africa, he was a professor at the University of Algiers (1919–44; during the French occupation of Algeria) and wrote numerous books and articles. One of his main overall contributions to the scholarly study of Islamic art/architecture was to highlight the architecture of the western Islamic world – the Maghreb and Al-Andalus – as its own regional style (popularly called "Moorish" architecture) which could be distinguished from the artistic traditions in the more eastern parts of the Islamic world.[5] One of his books, L’Architecture musulmane d’occident: Tunisie, Algérie, Maroc, Espagne et Sicile, published in 1954, is still considered one of the standard works on this subject.[5]
References
- ^ "CTHS - MARÇAIS Georges Alfred". cths.fr. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
- ^ "Georges Marçais (1876-1962)". data.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-03.
- ^ Perrin, Charles-Edmond (1956). "Éloge funèbre de M. William Marçais, membre ordinaire". Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 100 (3): 363–368.
- ^ Bloom, Jonathan M. (2020). Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800. Yale University Press. pp. 278–279. ISBN 9780300218701.
- ^ a b c M. Bloom, Jonathan; S. Blair, Sheila, eds. (2009). "Marçais, Georges". The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195309911.
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