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Jean Seznec

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French historian and mythographer (1905-1983)

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Jean Seznec was a historian and mythographer whose most influential book, for English-speaking readers, is La Survivance des dieux antiques (1940), translated as The Survival of the Pagan Gods: Mythological Tradition in Renaissance Humanism and Art (1953).

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Awards 3

1949Guggenheim Fellowship
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Commander of the National Order of Merit

Writers from France 6

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Jean Seznec was a historian and mythographer whose most influential book, for English-speaking readers, is La Survivance des dieux antiques (1940), translated as The Survival of the Pagan Gods: Mythological Tradition in Renaissance Humanism and Art (1953). Expanding the scope of work by Warburg Institute scholars Fritz Saxl and Erwin Panofsky, Seznec presented a broad view of the transmission of classical representation in Western art.

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France
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1905 to 1983 · aged 78
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