Monneret de Villard, Ugo

LC control no.	no2010031733
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Monneret de Villard, Ugo *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	De Villard, Ugo Monneret Monneret de Villard, U. (Ugo) Villard, Ugo Monneret de
Associated country	Italy
Associated place	Egypt Ethiopia
Birth date	1881-01-16
Death date	1954-11-04
Place of birth	Milan (Italy)
Place of death	Rome (Italy)
Field of activity	Islamic art Coptic art Art, Ethiopian Christian antiquities Islamic antiquities
Affiliation	Politecnico di Milano Università di Roma
Profession or occupation	Archaeologists Art historians Epigraphists
Found in	Aksum, 1938: t.p. (Ugo Monneret de Villard) OCLC, Feb. 24, 2010 (hdg.: Monneret de Villard, Ugo; usages: U. Monneret de Villard, Ugo Monneret de Villard) Grove Art Online, viewed March 7, 2020 (Monneret de Villard, Ugo; born Milan, Jan. 16, 1881; died Rome, November 4, 1954; descended from French noble family from Burgundy that settled in Piedmont at time of French revolution; trained as an architect, taught medieval architecture at the Politecnico, Milan; his writings to 1920 were devoted mainly to art and architecture of Italy, especially Lombardy; his interests then turned to the Christian and Islamic Orient; in 1923 he published a work on sculpture at Ahnas, showing how Coptic art developed out of Hellenistic and Egyptian traditions; followed in 1930 by a monograph on the Islamic necropolis at Aswan; did archaeological research in Nubia, its significance in the medieval period; after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935-6 he studied Ethiopian art and took part in an expedition to Aksum and excavations at Addis Ababa; researched the Mesopotamian Church, Babylonian and Iranian traditions, traditions of Manichaean and Sasanian art; in the last two decades of his life he researched Islamic art in Italy; he taught Christian archaeology at the University of Rome 1943-4, but was frustrated in attempts to support his work by teaching, and his work was seldom acknowledged until 1950, when he was awarded the national prize of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; works unfinished at his death included a study of the textile industry of Iraq and an introduction to Islamic archaeology)
Associated language	ita