Emmanuel Pontremoli

Emmanuel Pontremoli was a French architect and archaeologist. Born in Nice, AlpesMaritimes, a student in the atelier of LouisJules Andr, in 1890 he won the Prix de Rome in the architecture category and in 1922 became a member of the Acadmie des Beaux Arts. At the BeauxArts he taught a clinical architecture studio with Andr Leconte, a former student and winner of the 1927 Prix de Rome, the distinguished Atelier PontremoliLeconte. Pontremoli was appointed director of the BeauxArts in 1932 and is credited with shepherding the school, whose name had become synonymous with neoclassicism, into the Twentieth Century.

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