Alain Pasquier (born 1 August 1942) is a French art historian specialising in

ancient Greek art Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation. The rate of stylistic d ...

, museography and conservation.

Biography

Former student of the

École Normale Supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

(graduated 1962) and successful candidate of the

Agrégation de lettres classiques In France, the () is the most competitive and prestigious examination for civil service in the French public education system. Successful candidates become ''professeurs agrégés'' () and are usually appointed as teachers in secondary schools or ...

(1966), Pasquier became a student of the

French School at Athens The French School at Athens (, EfA; ''Gallikí Scholí Athinón'') is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. History Founded in 1846, the EfA is the oldest foreign institute in Athens. Its early f ...

from 1971 to 1974. After graduating, he became a curator at the Department of Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities at the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...

Museum. In 1984, he was nominated head curator and then, in 1988, the general inspector of the Musées de France (a set of nationally funded museums). He directed the Department of Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities from 1999 to 2007. Jean-Luc Martinez succeeded him. Since 1974, he has been a professor of Greek archeology, in charge of

Ancient Greek sculpture The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumenta ...

, at the

École du Louvre The École du Louvre () is a selective institution of higher education and prestigious ''grande école'' located in the Aile de Flore of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. It is dedicated to the study of archaeology, art history, anthropology ...

. Since 1995, he has also provided classes in

ancient Greek pottery Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exerted a dispro ...

at the

. In 2003, he was named 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 ...

. In 2007, along with Jean-Luc Martinez, he organized the ''Praxitèle'' exhibit at the Louvre .

Works

* with Jean-Luc Martinez (editors), ''Praxitèle'', catalogue of the exhibition at the Louvre, March 23 - June 18, 2007, published by Louvre & Somogy, 2007. * ''Tanagra. Myth and archeology'', edition of the Réunion des Musées nationaux, 2003. * with Bernard Holtzmann, ''History of Antique Art : Greek Art'', collection « Manuels de l'École du Louvre », published by the École du Louvre and the Documentation Française et la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1998. * ''The Louvre : Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiques'', Scala, 1998. * ''The Venus de Milo et the Aphrodites of the Louvre'', published by la Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1991.

References

1942 births French art historians French classical scholars Living people Members of the French School at Athens École Normale Supérieure alumni Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite Officers of the Legion of Honour Officiers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres {{France-historian-stub