Who is Jean-Pierre Changeux?
A professor at the Collège de France and the Institut Pasteur, Jean-Pierre Changeux is an internationally-acclaimed neurobiologist, regularly invited to speak at universities throughout the world. With his book L'Homme neuronal (Neuronal Man) he succeeded in reaching an audience that extended well beyond the scientific domain. He has contributed to establishing links between art history and scientific research through exhibitions such as The Soul in the Body and Light in the Age of Enlightenment. As regards art history specifically, he has attracted the public's attention to a period that remained relatively unknown - French pre-classical art - with the exhibition From Niccolò dell'Abbate to Poussin. The sources of French classicism which was held in Meaux in 1988. He is also President of the Commission des Dations and vice-president of the Friends of the Louvre Society. This exhibition presents donations already made to the Louvre and the Musée de Meaux and works from the personal collection of Jean-Pierre and Annie Changeux which will be handed over to the Musée de Meaux in due course.
An interview with Jean-Pierre Changeux can be read on the La Tribune de l'Art website (in French).
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