Eugène Müntz
Encyclopedia
Eugène Müntz was an Alsatian
-born French
art historian.
He was a professor of the history of art at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where he lectured from 1885 to 1893. He was a specialist on the Italian Renaissance
era.
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
-born French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
art historian.
He was a professor of the history of art at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where he lectured from 1885 to 1893. He was a specialist on the Italian Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe...
era.
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
- RaphaëlRaphaelRaffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
, 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
- Histoire de l'art pendant la Renaissance, 3 Vols., 1888-1894
- Léonard da VinciLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
, l'artiste, le penseur, le savant, 1899