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Daniel Dominique Arasse (5 November 1944 inAlgiers – 14 December 2003 inParis) was a Frenchart historian who specialised in theRenaissance andItalian art. He was the son ofart critic,Henriette Arasse.
His publication,Le Détail, Pour une histoire rapprochée de la peinture (1992) won theCharles-Blanc Prize in 1993.[1][2][3][4] Another bookLa Guillotine et L'imaginaire de la Terreur (1987), was translated into English asThe Guillotine and the Terror (1989).
Daniel Arasse, born on November 5, 1944 in Algiers (Algeria),[5] is the son of Raymond andHenriette Arasse.
Daniel Arasse passed theÉcole normale supérieure (Paris) in 1965,[6] then the agrégation de lettres classiques, and began a thesis at theSorbonne (building) withAndré Chastel on ItalianRenaissance art, focusing onBernardino of Siena. Following an incident in Florence in July 1976, recounted in Histoires de peintures (“The Stolen Thesis”), he changed director and subject, working underLouis Marin (philosopher) at theSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).
From 1969 to 1993, Daniel Arasse taught the history of modern art, from the 15th to the 19th century, at theParis-Sorbonne University (for two years) and then at theParis 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
From 1971 to 1973, he was a member of theÉcole française de Rome, which he left because of differences with director Georges Vallet.
From 1982 to 1989, he directed theInstitut français de Florence, where he created the France Cinéma festival.[7]
From 1993, he was director of studies at EHESS, where he was elected on the basis of merit, even though he had never defended his thesis.
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