Eugène Müntz (11 June 1845 – 30 October 1902) was a French
art historian
Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history.
Traditionally, the ...
who specialized in the
Italian Renaissance art
Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political stat ...
.
LIfe and career
Eugène Müntz was born on 11 June 1845 in
Soultz-sous-Forêts,
Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin () is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its lower altitude among the two French Rhine departments: it is downstream of the Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine) de ...
. His brother was
Achille Müntz
Charles Achille Müntz (10 August 1846 – 20 February 1917) was a French people, French agricultural chemist.
Biography
He was born at Soultz-sous-Forêts, Alsace, studied under Jean-Baptiste Boussingault in Paris, and, after acting as his assi ...
, who became an agricultural chemist.
From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of the École française de Rome.
[Müntz, Louis Frédéric Eugène]
Sociétés savantes de France He was a professor of art history at the
École des Beaux-arts
; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...
, where he lectured from 1885 to 1893.
In 1893 he became a member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres).
History ...
, and in 1898 was elected president of the Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France.
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Literary works
* ''Notes sur les mosaïques de l'Italie'', 1874–92.
* ''Les arts à la cour des papes pendant le XVe et le XVIe siècle'', 4 Vols., 1878–1898.
* ''Les précurseurs de la Renaissance'', 1881.
* '' Raphaël, sa vie, son œuvre et son temps'', 1881.
* ''Histoire de la tapisserie'', 1882.
* ''Etudes sur l'histoire de la peinture et de l'iconographie chrétiennes'', 1882.
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* ''Histoire de l'art pendant la Renaissance'', 3 volumes, 1888–1894
* '' Léonard da Vinci, l'artiste, le penseur, le savant'', translated into English in 1899 and published a
''Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker, and man of science''
References
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1845 births
1902 deaths
People from Bas-Rhin
French art historians
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
French male non-fiction writers
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