Eugène Müntz (11 June 1845 – 30 October 1902) was a French art historian who specialized in the Italian Renaissance art.
LIfe and career 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.Müntz, Louis Frédéric Eugène Sociétés savantes de France 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.
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.
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.
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