Josep Gudiol Ricart
Josep Gudiol i Ricart, also known as José Gudiol in citation, was a Catalan art historian, specializing in Catalan Romanesque painting, Gothic painting and other types of Spanish art.
Biography
Josep Maria Gudiol i Ricart was born in 1904 in Vic, Catalonia, Spain.Gudiol Ricart published a series of monumental books surveying Spanish art history, the Ars Hispaniae series. The two most important works in the series were, Las Pinturas Murales Románicas de Cataluña and Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas.
He served as director of the Amatller Institute of Hispanic Art in Barcelona, Spain.
Gudiol's daughter was the painter Montserrat Gudiol i Corominas.