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Barbier de Montault, Xavier-Marie-Joseph

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BARBIER DE MONTAULT, XAVIER-MARIE-JOSEPH. - French scholar, b. at Loudun on 6 February 1830, d. at Blaslay on 29 March 1901. Having gone to Rome at the age of 23, he stayed there a long time, and traveled through almost the whole of Italy, France and Germany, visiting museums, studying monuments and investigating archives.

The writings he published amount to more than 4000. Many of them, gathered into 16 vols., saw the light at Poitiers between 1889 and 1902 under the title Oeuvres complètes de Mgr X.-M.-J. B. de M. Prélat de la Maison de Sa Sainteté. They contain inventories of the churches of Rome, of the Vatican Palace, of the pontifical Museums; furthermore subjects such as papal law, popular devotions, hagiography, ceremonies concerning the conclave, and pontifical etiquette.

Among those of an archaeological character, besides the Tableau raisonné des pierres et marbres antiques employés à la construction des monuments de Rome (s. d.) and the volume Les Musées et Galeries de Rome - Catalogue général de tous les objets d'art qui y sont exposés (1870), noteworthy are Les églises de Rome étudiées au point de vue archéologique, the Description de la Basilique de S. Paul hors-les-murs à Rome (1866), Les souterrains et les trésors de S. Pierre à Rome ou description des objets d'art et d'archéologie qu'ils renferment (1866) and the Antiquités chrétiennes photographiées par M. Ch. Simelli cataloguées et décrites (1870). In the first volume of the Revue de l'art chrétien (1857) some articles appeared on the Épigraphie des Catacombes. Also worthy of note are the Traité pratique de la construction, de l'ameublement et de la décoration des églises, published at Paris in two volumes in 1872, and the Traité d'iconographie chrétienne, likewise published at Paris in two volumes in 1890. Finally, mention should be made of the study Le Martyrion de Poitiers. Comptérendu des fouilles et de l'ouvrage du r. p. De La Croix (1855) and of the extensive memoir in the Revue d'art chrétien, 40 (1896), on Les mosaïques des églises de Ravenne (of the 5th-7th century), whose historical, archaeological and artistic importance he brought into relief.

Bibliography
BIBL.: E. Girou, Monseigneur X.-Marie-Joseph B. de M. Bio-Bibliographie, Angers 1910.

Giuseppe Bovini

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 829.

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Bovini, Giuseppe. “Barbier de Montault, xavier-marie-joseph.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 829. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/barbier-de-montault-xavier-marie-joseph.

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Bovini, Giuseppe. “Barbier de Montault, xavier-marie-joseph.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 829. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/barbier-de-montault-xavier-marie-joseph.

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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
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