| Code | DS/UK/462 |
| Dates | 11/06/1845-02/11/1902 |
| Person Name | Müntz; Eugène (11/06/1845-02/11/1902) |
| Surname | Müntz |
| Forenames | Eugène |
| Activity | Historian of Roman, early Christian, and Italian Renaissance art; Principal librarian and keeper of the archives and collections at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1876-), where he taught aesthetics and art history; Chair of aesthetics at Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1885-1892). |
| History | Studied Law (Paris, 1857), but became interested in art, and devoted the rest of his life to art-historical research. One of the first pupils of the École Française in the Farnese Palace in Rome (1875-). Müntz belongs to the school of art historians that includes Carl Justi and Max Dvorák who focused on the study of art in a cultural context in the spirit of Jacob Burckhardt, opposing positivism of, for example, Hippolyte Taine. |
| Source | Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 91 cited, 92; Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Sources of Information in the Humanities, no. 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, p. 146 mentioned; Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art: de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, p. 145-6; The Dictonary of Art; LMW, "Müntz, Eugène", in: URL <http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/muntze.htm. [accessed 15/11/2010] |
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