Adolphe Napoléon Didron

Adolphe Napoléon Didron (13 March 1806 – 13 November 1867) was a French art historian and archaeologist. Quotes When at the present day we approach such subjects we are met at every turn by the danger of falling into platitude and cant, and it would seem as if an entirely novel phraseology must be invented for the religious poetry and art of the future. Yet the sorrow is the same, and the hope the same, which mediaeval art symbolised by the archetypal forms of Genesis as by those beloved of Christ, and we do but wait for some sincere religious movement for a noble iconography to be again evolved, believing that Christianity is a storehouse, inexhaustible, of germs which it does but take successive intellectual atmospheres to develop. Christian Iconography External links Category:1806 births Category:1867 deaths Category:Historians from France Category:Art historians Category:Archaeologists from France