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Vincent Lefèvre has been Professor of archaeology and history of art of South and Southeast Asia at Sorbonne University since September 2024, after having led a twenty-five-year career as a museum curator. Graduate from the Ecole nationale des chartes and the École nationale du patrimoine, he obtained his doctorate (2004) and then his habilitation to supervise research (2007) in oriental languages, civilizations and societies at the University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. He was curator at the Musée Cernuschi, Musée des Arts de l'Asie de la Ville de Paris (2000-2002), then curator in charge of textile collections at the Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet (2002-2008), before joining Agence France-Muséums as curator in charge of Asian arts as part of the Louvre Abu Dhabi project (2008-2013). He was then Deputy Director of Collections at the Service des musées de France of the General Directorate of Heritage of the Ministry of Culture (2013-2019), before returning to the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet as Director of Collections and curatorial affairs. For the past fifteen years, a good part of his research has focused on ancient Bengal and, since 2013, he has been the head of the French archaeological cooperation mission in Bangladesh which is conducting the excavations of the urban site of Mahasthangarh. A specialist in the arts and archaeology of the Indian and Indianized world, he has published numerous books and articles on the relations between artists and patrons in South India, Sanskrit treatises on ritual and architecture, and the question of portraiture in India and Southeast Asia.
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