Pierre-Yves Le Pogam

Pierre-Yves Le Pogam serves as Visiting Professor at CReA-Heritage for the 2023-2024 academic year and holds the permanent position of Chief Curator in the Department of Sculpture at the Louvre Museum, where he oversees the French medieval collection. An accomplished archivist-paleographer and former member of the French School in Rome, his career bridges museum curation and academic scholarship.

His research spans the Western Middle Ages (12th-15th centuries) with geographical focus on France and Italy, examining architecture, sculpture, iconography, daily life, and crafts. He uniquely integrates analysis of artistic production with its historical context while contributing significantly to the history of taste, history of collections, and historiography through interdisciplinary methodologies.

Le Pogam maintains an extensive publication record including five books, sixty scholarly articles, and one hundred thirty catalog entries. His recent lecture-courses on Romanesque 'signatures' and Parisian sculpture around 1300 demonstrate continued engagement with specialized topics in medieval art history, reflecting both academic rigor and public-facing scholarship.