Jean-Luc Martinez

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Jean-Luc Martinez (born March 22, 1964 ) is a French classical archaeologist and has been director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris since 2013 .

Life

Jean-Luc Martinez grew up as the child of a caretaker and postman who immigrated from Spain in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Ile de France . He attended the school in Rosny-sous-Bois and the grammar school in Fontenay-sous-Bois . He studied art history and classical archeology at the École du Louvre and graduated with a diploma. In 1989 he received the Agrégation as a history teacher. From 1993 to 1996 he worked as an archaeologist at the École française d'Athènes and took part in excavations on Delos and in Delphi . In 1997 he went to the Louvre as curator of sculptures, where he was responsible for the antiquities department (Département des antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines) from 2007, succeeding Alain Pasquier . He also taught at the École du Louvre. In April 2013 Martinez was appointed director of the Louvre to succeed Henri Loyrette .

Martinez was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in late 2015 .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Yasmine Helfer: Deux chefs-d'oeuvre à nouveau réunis. La Joueuse d'osselets de Berlin et la Nymphe à la coquille du Louvre (= Actualité du dépt. Des Antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines . Issue 3). Paris 1999.
  • La Dame d'Auxerre . Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris 2000.
  • with Alain Pasquier : 100 chefs-d'œuvre de la sculpture grecque au Louvre . Musée du Louvre Editions, Paris 2007.
  • La Grèce au Louvre . Musée du Louvre, Paris 2010.
  • with Marianne Hamiaux, Ludovic Laugier: La Victoire de Samothrace: le chef-d'oeuvre du Louvre restauré . Exhibition Louvre 2015. Éditions Faton, Dijon 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Veiel: From the Ghetto to the Louvre , in: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ Appointment decree (PDF; 717 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Martinez, Jean-Luc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical archaeologist and director of the Louvre
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1964