Émile Mâle

Émile Mâle (French: [emil mɑl]; 2 June 1862 – 6 October 1954) was a French art historian, one of the first to study medieval, mostly sacral French art and the influence of Eastern European iconography thereon.

A pupil at the École normale supérieure, he received his degree in 1886.

He taught rhetoric at Saint-Étienne, then at the University of Toulouse.

He was the successor to Louis Duchesne as head of the French Academy in Rome, 1923–1937.

[1] In particular, his doctoral thesis on the Gothic art of France (revised over three editions) L'Art religieux du XIIIe siècle en France (1899) translated into English as The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century from the third edition of 1910 (or omitting "The Gothic Image" from title, especially in the US) remains in print.