Madeleine Giteau (Nantes, 1918 â February 2005) was a French historian and member of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, who devoted a great part of her life to research involving Laotian and Cambodian art, especially Khmer sculpture and iconography.
She was the last French curator of Cambodia's National Museum (known as the Albert Sarraut Museum) in Phnom Penh from 1956 to 1966. In 1963, she oversaw the reorganization of the Wat Po Veal and the Battambang Provincial Museum.
She died at the age of 86 in February 2005.
Selected bibliography
- 1956 - Histoire du Cambodge, Paris, Hattier.
- 1960 - Guide du musée national [de Phnom Penh], 2 vol. (1. La sculpture; 2. Pièces archéologiques et stèles), Phnom Penh.
- 1965 - Les Khmers. Sculptures khmères, reflets de la civilisation dâÂÂAngkor, Fribourg, Office du Livre.
- 1969 - Le bornage rituel des temples bouddhiques au Cambodge, Paris, EFEO (PEFEO, 68), 153 p., 29 pl.
- 1974 - Histoire dâÂÂAngkor, Paris, PUF (Que sais-je ?, 1580), [réimpr. Paris, Kailash, 1996].
- 1975 - Iconographie du Cambodge post-angkorien, Paris, EFEO (PEFEO, 100), 381 p., 88 pl.
- 1976 - Angkor, un peuple, un art, Fribourg, Office du Livre.
- 1994 - Regards sur Angkor, Paris, ÃÂditions Chapitre Douze.
- 1997 - (with Danielle Guéret), LâÂÂart khmer, reflet des civilisations dâÂÂAngkor, Paris, ASA & Somogy.
- 2001 - Art et archéologie du Laos, Paris, Picard.
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