Charles Picard

Charles Picard (7 June 1883 – 15 December 1965) was a prominent Classical archaeologist and historian of ancient Greek art.

He is best known for his multi-volume, monumental survey, Manuel d'archéologie grecque: La sculpture.

Picard was elected member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1932.

His children were the historian Gilbert Charles-Picard and Yvonne Picard, a member of the French Resistance, who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.

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