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  1. Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (21 October 1755 – 28 December 1849) was a French armchair archaeologist and architectural theorist, a Freemason, and an effective arts administrator and influential writer on art.

  2. Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère, dit Quatremère de Quincy, né le 28 octobre 1755 à Paris et mort le 28 décembre 1849 également à Paris, est un architecte, archéologue, philosophe, critique d'art et homme politique français.

  3. Quatremère de Quincy, an Italophile archaeologist who had been trained as a sculptor, united the school of architecture with that of painting and sculpture to form a single organization, so that, although architectural students were ultimately given their own professor of theory, the whole theoretical….

  4. Leader of the French Académie under Napoleon; theorist and historian of 18th century French art; artistic biographer. Quatremère initially studied law before taking courses in art and history at the Collège de Louis-le-Grand. He also trained as a sculptor by Guillaume Coustou and Pierre Julien.

  5. Aug 29, 2022 · Michel-Antoine Xhignesse, Quatremère de Quincys Moral Considerations on the Place and Purpose of Works of Art: Introduction and Translation, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 80, Issue 4, Fall 2022, Pages 520–523, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpac044

  6. Sep 1, 1992 · Pub date: September 1, 1992. Publisher: The MIT Press. 350 pp., 6 x 9 in, MIT Press Bookstore Penguin Random House Amazon Barnes and Noble Bookshop.org Indiebound Indigo Books a Million. Hardcover.

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  8. Aug 1, 2022 · This article reinterprets Antoine Quatremère de Quincy's Letters on the Plan to Abduct the Monuments of Italy (1796). In response to official justifications that seizing cultural patrimony was France's civilizing mission, Quatremère argued that civilization required all nations to leave Rome intact and respect eighteenth-century conventions.

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