Career

1980-1986: Professor at the University of Burgundy

1986-1993: Chief Curator, Director-General of the Strasbourg Museums (France)

1993-2001: Professor at the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, Director of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (National Institute for Art History)

Since 2001: Professor at the Collège de France

2003: Member of the Institut de France- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (French Institute - Academy of Humanities)

Honorary distinction 

2004: Officer of the French National Order of Merit