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Eugène Müntz

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Müntz between 1884 and 1890

Eugène Müntz (11 June 1845 – 30 October 1902) was a French art historian who specialized in the Italian Renaissance art.

LIfe and career

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Eugène Müntz was born on 11 June 1845 in Soultz-sous-Forêts, Bas-Rhin. His brother was Achille Müntz, who became an agricultural chemist.

From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of the École française de Rome.[1] He was a professor of art history at the École des Beaux-arts, where he lectured from 1885 to 1893.

In 1893 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and in 1898 was elected president of the Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France.[1]

Literary works

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  • 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.
  • Müntz, Eugène (1888). L'Histoire des Arts dans la Ville d'Avignon Pendant le XIVe Siècle. Paris: Ernest Leroux.
  • 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 as Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker, and man of science.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Müntz, Louis Frédéric Eugène Sociétés savantes de France
  2. ^ "Review of Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Thinker, and Man of Science by Eugene Müntz". The Academy and Literature. 56 (1396): 149–150. 4 February 1899.