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 may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education sca ...

(graduated 1962) and successful candidate of the

Agrégation de lettres classiques In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''professe ...

(1966), Pasquier became a student of the

French School at Athens The French School at Athens (french: École française d’Athènes, EfA; el, Γαλλική Σχολή Αθηνών ''Gallikí Scholí Athinón'') is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. History ...

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 the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

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 Jean-Luc Martinez (born 22 March 1964) is the former president of the Louvre. In May 2022 French police charged him with crimes including fraud and money laundering related to antiquities trafficking. Martinez began working at the Louvre in 1997 ...

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 monum ...

, at the

École du Louvre The École du Louvre is an institution of higher education and 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 and epigraphy. Admissi ...

. Since 1995, he has also provided classes in ancient Greek pottery at the

. In 2003, he was named a member of the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigr ...

. In 2007, along with

, 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