Jean-Claude Golvin
Illustration — Workspace of Jean-Claude Golvin in a 2015 exhibition of his work. Jean-Claude Golvin (born 18 December 1942) is a French archaeologist and architect. He specializes in the history of Roman amphitheatres and has published hundreds of reconstruction drawings of ancient monuments.
Jean-Claude Golvin
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- Born
- 1942 · Sfax.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- architect · art historian · archaeologist · painter · graphic artist · university teacher · egyptologist · draftsperson
- Fields
- archaeology · amphitheatre · architecture · classical architecture
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Workspace of Jean-Claude Golvin in a 2015 exhibition of his work. Jean-Claude Golvin (born 18 December 1942) is a French archaeologist and architect. He specializes in the history of Roman amphitheatres and has published hundreds of reconstruction drawings of ancient monuments.
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Golvin is a researcher with the CNRS at the Bordeaux Montaigne University. He obtained a doctorate in archaeology in 1985 with a thesis on Roman amphitheaters. Since 1989, Golvin's work has focused on creating watercolor illustrations of ancient and medieval cities as they appeared in their heyday. In 2010, he donated his body of work, over a thousand drawings and sketches, to the Arles Museum of Antiquities.
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1942
Jean-Claude Golvin born at Sfax.
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- Jean-Claude Golvin, L’antiquité retrouvée(Paris: Éditions Errance, 2003), Korean Journal of Urban History, 2009
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2009
- Jean-Michel Roddaz & Jean-Claude Golvin, Hérode le roi architecte, Syria, 2015
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2015
- Review: La construction pharaonique du Moyen Empire à l'époque grécoromaine by Jean-Calude Goyon, Jean-Claude Golvin, Claire Simon-Boidot, Gilles Martinet, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2006
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2006
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Jean-Claude Golvin worked in archaeology, amphitheatre, architecture, classical architecture and archaeological excavation. He was employed by Bordeaux Montaigne University. He worked at Paris. Recorded as architect, art historian, archaeologist, painter and graphic artist.
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