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Jean Michel Leniaud

Jean-Michel Leniaud is a scholar and art historian French , born 18 August 1951 at Toulon.

Career

Jean-Michel Leniaud is a historian known for his work on the history of heritage and history of architecture. He studied at the Ecole Nationale des Chartes in which he released paleographer archivist in 1976 with a thesis entitled "Research on Jean-Baptiste Lassus (1807-1857), archaeologist and architect whose church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville Paris is the last site.

He became a graduate of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes , and then Doctor of Law and Doctor of Letters.

Inspector of Historic Monuments 1977 to 1990 , he was successively regional curator of historical monuments in the region Rhone-Alpes (1979-1983), Division Head of General Affairs and Protection of Historic Monuments (1983-1986) and Chief the division of movable heritage (1986-1990) at the Ministry of Culture.

He devoted himself entirely to research since 1990 , when he was appointed director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He also teaches contemporary art history at the National School of charters as a lecturer ( one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one - 1 996 ) and then as Professor (since 1996 ) and the Ecole du Louvre since 2000.

His research focuses on the architecture of the ^nineteenth and ^twentieth centuries, the art institution and religious history in relation to the arts. It is also considering the concept of heritage in our society. He produced a considerable body of work (see below). He also directs the publication of the minutes of the Academy of Fine Arts (after 1811). Eight volumes have appeared to date editions of the Ecole des Chartes. He is also editor of Shipments of architectural history, biannual journal.

He is a member of the National Commission of Historical Monuments and the regional commissions and heritage sites in the le-de-France and Poitou-Charentes.

Honors

Chevalier of the Legion of Honor ;
Officer of the National Order of Merit ;
Commander of the Order of Academic Palms ;
Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Price of the French Academy , the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

Works (excluding participation in collective books, articles, etc.).

Jean-Baptiste Lassus or time regained the cathedral , 1980
The Administration of Religious Affairs during the composition period, 1988
Introduction to the Memoirs of the Abb Grgoire , 1989
Culture sans-culottes, 1989 (in coll.)
The Sainte-Chapelle , 1991 (in coll.)
Utopia French Test Heritage, 1992
The Cathedrals of the nineteenth ^century, 1993
Price Chaix d'Est-Ange of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and the Academy of Architecture.
These churches of the nineteenth ^century, 1993 (in coll.)
Directory of Diocesan architects of the nineteenth ^century, 1993, ( read online )
Viollet-le-Duc or delusions System, 1994
Saint-Denis from 1760 to the Present, 1996
The builders of the future: portraits of architects, 1998
Eugene Career Award of the French Academy.
The Hotel of the Prefecture and the General Council of Yvelines, Versailles, 2001
Chronic Heritage, 2001
The Architectural Periodicals, 2001 (ed. with B. Bouvier)
The Book of Architecture, 2001 (ed. with B. Bouvier)
Palaces for books, 2002, dir.
Should he complete Saint-Ouen in Rouen? : Debates and controversies, 1837-1852, 2002
Archipelagos of the past: the heritage and history, 2002
Architecture, public institutions and services, 2003 (ed.)
Charles Garnier , 2003
Eugene Career Award of the French Academy.
The dream of reason. The Rivieras of Charles Garnier, and Gustave Eiffel, 2004 (in coll.)
Prix Bernier of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Between nostalgia and utopia: architectural and artistic realities of the ^nineteenth and ^twentieth centuries, 2005 (ed.)
Historiography of the history of religious art in France in modern times and contemporary literature review (1975-2000) and prospects, 2005 (in coll.)
The Palace of the Institute. College four-nations at the Institut de France, 2005 (in coll.)
The Cathedral of Chartres , 2006
The Revolution signs: Art at the church, 1830-1930, 2007
Twenty centuries of church architecture in France, 2007
La Sainte Chapelle, 2007 (in coll.), Ed. French and ed. English
Budget cults, Paris, 2007 (ed.)
Notre-Dame de Paris , 2009
Art Nouveau, Citadels & Mazenod, Paris, 2009 ( ISBN 9782850884436 )