Background
Mâle was born in Commentry, Auvergne.
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Mâle was born in Commentry, Auvergne.
École Normale Supérieure.
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 received his doctorate in 1899.
Having taught a course in the history of Christian art at the Sorbonne since 1906, he held the chair in history of art there from 1912.
He was the successor to Louis Duchesne as head of the French Academy in Rome, 1923-1937. Among Mâle"s many contributions to the understanding of the art of bygone eras were his explanations of iconography and the use of allegory in religious art
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 United States) remains in print. He died in Fontaine-Chaalis, Oise.
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Académie française; Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. British Academy]
He was a member of the Académie française, and a director of the Académie de France à Rome.
Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1918)
Member of the Académie royale de Belgique
Member of the British Academy
Member of the Académie française.