Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (born 19 November 1936) is a French architectural historian.

Family

His family was an old bourgeois one originating in the

Dauphiné The Dauphiné (, ) is a former province in Southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes. The Dauphiné was originally the Dauphiné of Viennois. In the 12th centu ...

. His earliest known ancestor is Jean Pérouse (died 1663), procurer, mayor of

Vienne Vienne (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Viéne'') is a landlocked department in the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It takes its name from the river Vienne. It had a population of 438,435 in 2019.Roussillon Roussillon ( , , ; ca, Rosselló ; oc, Rosselhon ) is a historical province of France that largely corresponded to the County of Roussillon and part of the County of Cerdagne of the former Principality of Catalonia. It is part of the reg ...

, Didier Pérouse de Montclos (1786–1863) was a notary and Henri Pérouse de Montclos (1820–1892) was also mayor of Roussillon.

Life

Born in

Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...

, he gained a diploma from the

Institut d'études politiques de Paris , motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public research university''Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , accreditation ...

. He also has a doctorate in literature. He is director of research at the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

. When

André Malraux Georges André Malraux ( , ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by P ...

and

André Chastel André Chastel (15 November 1912, Paris – 18 July 1990, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Renaissance, Italian Renaissance. He was a professor at the Collège de France, where he held the chair of ...

established France's Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel in 1964, de Montclos was the first researcher it recruited. He thus took responsibility for its research and documentation, coordinating their method and vocabulary and presiding over the national commission. He teaches at the École de Chaillot and the

École du Louvre The École du Louvre is an institution of higher education and grande école located in the Aile de Flore of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. It is dedicated to the study of archaeology, art history, anthropology and epigraphy. Admission is ...

and has written several works on early modern architecture. He is a member of France's

Académie d'architecture The Académie d'Architecture () is a French learned society whose purpose is the recognition of architectural quality. Founded in 1840 as the Société Centrale des Architectes (; en, "Central Society of Architects"), the society was renamed Ac ...

and of the 'conseil scientifique' Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (CISA, aka Palladio Museum). His son Marc-Antoine specialises in the politics of conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa and teaches at the

Sciences Po Paris , motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public research university''Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , accreditation ...

Works

* 1972 : ''Architecture. Méthode et vocabulaire'', éd. du patrimoine, Paris, 7e éd. 2009 (1st edition, 1972), 622 p. . Nouvelle édition 2011, revue et augmentée * 1982 : ''L’Architecture à la française, du milieu du XVe à la fin du XVIIIe'', éd. Picard, Paris, (republished 2013) * 1984 : ''Les Prix de Rome'', Berger-Levrault,

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...

, Paris * 1989 : ''Histoire de l’architecture française, tome II. De la Renaissance à la Révolution'', Mengès, Paris ; réimpr. 1995, 2003 * 1992 : ''Guide du patrimoine. Île-de-France'', Hachette, Paris * 1993 : ''Boullée, architecte visionnaire'', Hermann * 1994 : ''Étienne-Louis Boullée'', Paris, Flammarion, 1994, 287 p. ( et 978-2-08-010075-7, OCLC 32078940, notice BnF no FRBNF35729762, LCCN 95130430) * 1996 : ''Guide du patrimoine. Languedoc-Roussillon'', Hachette, Paris * 1997 : ''

Vaux-le-Vicomte The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (English: Palace of Vaux-le-Vicomte) is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne department of Île-de-France. Built between 1658 and 1661 for Nicolas Fo ...

'', Paris, Scala (republished in 2008) * 1998 : ''Le Château de Fontainebleau'', Paris, Scala ; réactualisé en 2009 * 2001 : " Serlio à Fontainebleau " in ''Annali di architettura'' no. 13,

Vicence Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan. Vicenza is a thr ...

* ''

Philibert de l'Orme Philibert de l'Orme () (3-9 June 1514 – 8 January 1570) was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of French Renaissance architecture. His surname is also written De l'Orme, de L'Orme, or Delorme. Biography Early care ...

. Architecte du roi (1514–1570)'', Mengès, Paris. * ''L’Art de France. De la Renaissance au Siècle des Lumières 1450–1770'', Mengès, Paris * 2012 : ''L'École de Chaillot, une aventure des savoirs et des pratiques (architecture et patrimoine)'', with Florence Contenay and Benjamin Mouton, Paris, Éditions des Cendres / Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine * 2012 : ''Ange-Jacques Gabriel'', Éditions du Patrimoine, Paris

Honours

* 2005 : Prix Eugène Carrière pour ''L’Art de France. De la Renaissance au Siècle des Lumières 1450–1770'' * 14 November 1995 – Commander of the

ordre des Arts et des Lettres The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and Letters) is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is ...

References

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