Eugène Müntz
Eugène Müntz was an Alsatian-French art historian.
From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of the École française de Rome. He was a professor of art history at the École des Beaux-arts, where he lectured from 1885 to 1893. He was a specialist on the Italian Renaissance era.
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 .
Family
His brother Achille Müntz was an agricultural chemist.
