高階秀爾さん死去、９２歳　美術史家、元国立西洋美術館館長

　国立西洋美術館館長などを歴任し、幅広い評論活動を行った美術史家で東京大名誉教授の高階秀爾（たかしな・しゅうじ）さんが１７日、心不全のため東京都内の自宅で死去した。９２歳だった。東京都出身。葬儀は近親者で済ませた。
　東京大大学院に在学していた１９５４年、フランス政府招聘（しょうへい）給費留学生としてパリ大付属美術研究所で学んだ。帰国後、国立西洋美術館勤務を経て、東京大で教授などに就いた。９２年に同大を退官し、２０００年まで同館館長。その後、岡山県倉敷市の大原美術館館長も務めた。
　著述や翻訳を多く手掛け、７２年に「ルネッサンスの光と闇」で芸術選奨文部大臣賞を受賞。００年に紫綬褒章、０５年に文化功労者、１２年に文化勲章。長年にわたり日仏文化の交流を促進した功績から、仏政府から芸術文化勲章オフィシエ、レジオン・ドヌール勲章シュバリエなどを受けた。（2024/10/24-12:43）

Japanese art historian Shuji Takashina, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and former director of the National Museum of Western Art, died of heart failure Oct. 17 at his home in Tokyo. He was 92.
   In 1954, during his time as a graduate student at the University of Tokyo, Takashina studied on a French government scholarship at the University of Paris' Institute of Art and Archaeology.
   After returning to Japan, he worked at the National Museum of Western Art, located in Tokyo, and was then appointed a professor at the University of Tokyo.
   Takashina retired from the university in 1992 and served as director of the national museum until 2000. He later worked as director at the Ohara Museum of Art in the city of Kurashiki in the western prefecture of Okayama.
   Takashina wrote and translated many books. He received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 1972 for his book explaining the Renaissance.