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Philippe de Montebello

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Philippe de Montebello
Born
Guy Philippe Henri Lannes de Montebello

(1936-05-16) May 16, 1936 (age 87)
NationalityAmerican
EducationNew York University Institute of Fine Arts
Alma materHarvard University
Occupationmuseum director
Known forDirector of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ChildrenLaure de Montebello
Marc André Marie de Montebello
Charles de Montebello

Philippe de Montebello (born May 16, 1936 in Paris) is an American museum director. He served from 1977 to 2008 as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On his retirement, he was both the longest-serving director in the institution's history and the third longest-serving director of any major art museum in the world (first is Irina Antonova while the second is Knud W. Jensen). From January 2009, Montebello took up a post as the first Fiske Kimball Professor in the History and Culture of Museums at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.

Born to a French aristocratic family, de Montebello immigrated to the United States of America in the 1950s, and became a naturalized citizen of the US in 1955. He was educated in New York City at the Lycée Français de New York, graduated from Harvard University with a degree in art history, and earned an MA from New York University, after which he embarked on a career in Fine Arts. He became the Director of the Metropolitan Museum in 1977 and has become widely known as the public face of the museum.

He announced his retirement on 8 January 2008, stating that he intended to step down by the end of 2008 after more than 31 years at his post.[1] He is currently the chairman of the Hispanic Society of America, and became a director in 2017 of the Aquavella Galleries in New York.[2]

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Biography

Early life

Born Guy Philippe Henri Lannes de Montebello in Paris in 1936 to a family descended from the Napoleonic aristocracy, de Montebello was the second of four sons. His father, Marquis André Roger Lannes de Montebello, December 2, 1986), was a portrait painter, art critic and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. His mother, Germaine Wiener de Croisset, was a descendant of the Marquis de Sade,[3] a daughter of the playwright Francis de Croisset, and a half-sister of the arts patron Marie-Laure de Noailles. One of de Montebello's great-great-great-grandfathers was Jean Lannes.

Both parents were involved in a project to develop a form of three-dimensional photography, and it was in search of venture capital for this enterprise that the family came to New York in 1951. Whereas his brothers would all eventually return to France to take up jobs in banking, he stayed in the United States and became an American citizen in 1955.[citation needed]

De Montebello was educated at the Lycée Français in New York, where he received his baccalauréat in 1954. He then went on to study art history at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in 1958. During his freshman year, De Montebello lived in Stoughton Hall.[4] He continued his studies at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, where he studied under Charles Sterling, an expert in French Renaissance art.[5]

Early career

In 1963, he began work for the Met as a curatorial assistant in the Department of European Paintings, rising to full curator. He then spent four-and-a-half-years (1969–1974) as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, returning to the Met as vice director for curatorial and educational affairs. He became director in 1977.

Family

On June 24, 1961 in New York, he married Edith Myles (born in New York, October 20, 1939), who is the financial-aid director of the Trinity School in New York City. They have three children.

Retirement

On January 8, 2008, he announced his intention to retire by the end of 2008 (Vogel, Carol (2008-01-09). "Director (and Voice) of Met Museum to Retire". The New York Times.). He was succeeded by Thomas Campbell in September 2008.[6]

Teaching

De Montebello is the first professor to teach the history and culture of museums at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. He began teaching at NYU in January 2009 as well as consulting and lecturing at several museums on the modernization of their collections.[7] In 2012, de Montebello served as the Humanitas Visiting Professor in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge.[8]

Since 2008, De Montebello has also served as co-host of NYC-ARTS, a weekly program highlighting current New York City exhibitions, cultural institutions and profiling relevant contributors to the arts on Thirteen/WNET.[9]

In April, 2015 the Hispanic Society of America announced the appointment of Philippe de Montebello to chair the Society's Board of Overseers and spearhead a major effort to roughly double the museum's size by renovating the now-vacant, adjacent, Beaux Arts, former building of the Museum of the American Indian.[10]

Honors

Montebello was named a Gold Medal Honoree of the National Institute of Social Sciences in 1989.[11] Montebello was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1991 (he was promoted to the rank of Officier in 2007). De Montebello was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2001[12] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.[13] In 2007 De Montebello was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold & Silver Star, from the Government of Japan.[14] In 2017, Montebello received the Edmund Burke Award for Culture and Society, awarded by monthly cultural review The New Criterion.

References

  1. ^ Patrician Director of Metropolitan Museum to Retire The New York Times, January 9, 2007 (accessed January 9, 2007)
  2. ^ Pogrebin, Robin (2017-07-26). "Philippe de Montebello, Former Met Chief, Joins Acquavella". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  3. ^ "Stock Photo - The wedding of Count Andre Roger de Montbello, the French portrait painter and art critic, to Germaine Wiener de Croisset, distant relative of the Marquis de Sade. 30". Alamy. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  4. ^ http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dorms/index.cgi?name=montebello&grad=&year=&dorm=-+Any+-&room=
  5. ^ de Montebello, Philippe (2014). Rendez-vous with Art. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-500-23924-7.
  6. ^ "Metropolitan Museum Takes Bold Step; Taps young insider as its new director", Kate Taylor, New York Sun, September 10, 2008
  7. ^ Carol Vogel (2008-05-20). "Met Director Will Become Professor at N.Y.U. Institute". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
  8. ^ "Event : Institute for Strategic Dialogue". Strategicdialogue.org. Archived from the original on 2014-12-02. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
  9. ^ https://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/preview/new-hosts-philippe-de-montebello-and-paula-zahn/185/
  10. ^ Catton, Pia (20 April 2015). "New Chairman Hopes to Boost Profile of Often-Overlooked Museum". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  11. ^ "Gold Medal Honorees — the National Institute of Social Sciences". Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  12. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  13. ^ "Philippe de Montebello". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  14. ^ Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "2007 Fall Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals," p. 2. Mofa.go.jp

Sources

  • Houghton, James R. et al., Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977–2008, 184 pp, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0300154245

Further reading

  • Rendez-vous with Art by Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford. 2014, Thames and Hudson. ISBN 9780500239247

External links

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Preceded by

Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

1977–2008
Succeeded by
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