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