Robert de la Sizeranne

Henri Robert Monier de la Sizeranne (28 August 1866 – 14 September 1932) was a French art critic and essayist.

Biography

Robert de la Sizeranne was born at the commune of Tain-l'Hermitage in the French department of Drôme. Sizeranne descended from an old aristocratic family. He was an assiduous collaborator of periodicals such as the Revue des Deux Mondes and L'Illustration. The Académie française awarded him the Prix Bordin in 1896 and the Prix Vitet in 1909. In 1895, he was a member of the awarding jury of the I International Art Exhibition. He was made Kinight of the Legion of Honor. Sizeranne devoted himself in particular to the activity of historian of art. He was also a literary critic and translator of some of the works of John Ruskin.

He died in Paris.

Works

• La Peinture Anglaise Contemporaine (1895)
• Ruskin et la Religion de la Beauté (1897)
• La Photographie est-elle un Art? (1899)
• Le Miroir de la Vie, Essais sur l'Évolution Esthétique (1902; 2011, with a preface by Louis Gillet)
• Les Questions Esthétiques Contemporaines (1904)
• Les Pierres de Venise, by John Ruskin (1906; preface)
• Pages Choisies de John Ruskin (1909; introduction)
• Les Masques et les Visages à Florence et au Louvre. Portraits Célèbres de la Renaissance Italienne (1913)
• L’Art pendant la Guerre 1914-1918 (1919)
• Béatrice d'Este et sa Cour (1921)
• César Borgia et le Duc d'Urbino (1924)
• Le Vertueux Condottière Federigo de Montefeltro duc d'Urbino (1927)
• Le Préraphaélisme (2008)

Selected publications

• "Fragonard Improvisateur", L'Illustration ‎(décembre 1910), pp. 25–30.
• "L'Automne à Versailles", L'Illustration (décembre 1911), pp. 41–46.
• 'La Collection Wallace", L'Illustration‎ (décembre 1912), pp. 39–49.

Translated into English

• English Contemporary Art (1898)
• "The Château Chantilly and the Musée Condé," The Magazine of Art, Vol. XXI (1898)
• "In Memoriam: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart. (Born Aug. 28, 1833; Died June 17, 1898.) A Tribute from France," The Magazine of Art, Vol. XXI (1898)
• "What is Caricature?," Part II, The Living Age, Vol. CCXXI (1899)
• Ruskin and the Religion of Beauty (1899)
• "Is Ruskin Out of Date?, The Magazine of Art, Vol. XXIII (1900)
• "The Oil-Paintings of Turner." In: The Genius of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. (1903)
• "Introduction." In: J. J. Foster, ed., French Art from Watteau to Prud'hon, Vol. 1 (1905)
• Ruskin at Venice (1906)
• The National Gallery-London: The Early British School (1906)
• The National Gallery-London: The Later British School (1907)
• "Painting Under the Empire," La France, Vol. V (1921)
• Beatrice d'Este and Her Court (1924)
• Celebrities of the Italian Renaissance in Florence and in the Louvre (1926)
• The Aesthetics of French Photography (1979)
• The Pre-Raphaelites (2008)

External links

• La Sizeranne, Robert de
• Works by Robert de la Sizeranne at Hathi Trust
• Works by Robert de la Sizeranne at Gallica
• Works by Robert de la Sizeranne at JSTOR
• Works by Robert de la Sizeranne at Open Library