Eugène Müntz

The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris and École française de Rome. Positions recorded include member of the École française de Rome. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour, Marcelin Guérin Prize and Officier de l'Instruction publique.

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. 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.

• Notes sur les mosaïques de l'Italie, 1874–92. • Les arts à la cour des papes pendant le XV e et le XVI e 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.