Biography

Training and professional career

  • 1980-1986 : Professor at the University of Burgundy
  • 1986-1993 : Chief Curator, Director General of the Strasbourg Museums
  • 1993-2001 : Professor at the Université Marc-Bloch Strasbourg, Director of the Institut d'histoire de l'art
  • 2001-2012 : Professor at the Collège de France, chair History of medieval and modern European art
  • 2003 : Member of the Institut, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

Honorary distinctions

  • 2004 : Officer of the National Order of Merit

Selected bibliography