Éric de Chassey | |
Birthname: | Éric de Buretel de Chassey |
Birth Place: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Education: | École Normale Supérieure |
Nationality: | French |
Occupation: | Director of the French Academy in Rome |
Éric de Buretel de Chassey (born 1965, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is a French historian of French art, art critic, and professor of contemporary art history at François Rabelais University in Tours, France. He has had students from many different countries, one of whom is the Iranian artist Bahram Ahmadi.[1]
On 4 September 2009, he was named director of the French Academy in Rome, succeeding Frédéric Mitterrand.[2]