Alain Pasquier is a French art historian specialising in ancient Greek art, museography and conservation.

Biography

Former student of the École Normale Supérieure

École Normale Supérieure

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 (graduated 1962) and successful candidate of the Agrégation de lettres classiques (1966), Pasquier became a student of the French School at Athens from 1971 to 1974. After graduating, he became a curator at the Department of Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities at the Louvre

Louvre

The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...

 Museum. In 1984, he was nominated head curator and then, in 1988, the general inspector of the Musées de France (a set of nationally funded museums). He directed the Department of Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities from 1999 to 2007. Jean-Luc Martinez succeeded him.

Since 1974, he has been a professor of Greek archeology, in charge of Ancient Greek sculpture

Ancient Greek sculpture

Ancient Greek sculpture is the sculpture of Ancient Greece. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages. They were used to depict the battles, mythology, and rulers of the land known as Ancient Greece.-Geometric:...

, at the École du Louvre

École du Louvre

The École du Louvre is an institution of higher education and French Grande École located in the Aile de Flore of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France, and is dedicated to the study of archaeology, art history, anthropology and epigraphy....

. Since 1995, he has also provided classes in ancient Greek pottery

Pottery of Ancient Greece

As the result of its relative durability, pottery is a large part of the archaeological record of Ancient Greece, and because there is so much of it it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society...

 at the École Normale Supérieure

École Normale Supérieure

The École normale supérieure is one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles...

. In 2003, he was named a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

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In 2007, along with Jean-Luc Martinez, he organized the Praxitèle exhibit at the Louvre
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Works

• with Jean-Luc Martinez (editors), Praxitèle, catalogue of the exhibition at the Louvre, March 23 - June 18 2007, published by Louvre & Somogy, 2007.
• Tanagra. Myth and archeology, edition of the Réunion des Musées nationaux, 2003.
• with Bernard Holtzmann, History of Antique Art : Greek Art, collection « Manuels de l'École du Louvre », published by the École du Louvre and the Documentation Française et la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1998.
• The Louvre : Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiques', Scala, 1998.
• The Venus de Milo et the Aphrodites of the Louvre, published by la Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1991.