Yves Morvan


Yves Morvan is a French archaeologist, specialist of the romanesque art and of the iconography of Blaise Pascal. He is also a restorer, sculptor of religious characters, as well as member of the Academy of Science, Literature and Arts of Clermont-Ferrand.

Biography

During more than 40 years he worked on the medieval art from Auvergne. His works are quoted by numerous experts in various books. He undertook an important work of archaeology and discovered numerous murals in the churches of the region. He realized more than three hundred archeological explorations and restorations of romanesque murals.
In its novel " La chapelle des damnés " Samuel Gance named the main character Ivo Varmon which is Yves Morvan's anagram.
In 2015, in a book on the colors harmony, he denounces The Michel-Eugène Chevreul's Laws of Contrast of Colour.

Books