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emmanuel pontremoli in 1932 villa kerylos -lrb- ca. 1900 -rrb- 25 july 1956 paris , french republic nice , alpes-maritimes , french empire prix 7 de rome 1890 académie des beaux-arts 1922 seat 13 january 1865 file : emmanuel pontremoli 1932.jpg emmanuel pontremoli
 École des beaux-arts emmanuel pontremoli
emmanuel pontremoli

emmanuel pontremoli -lrb- 13 january 1865 -- 25 july 1956 -rrb- was a french architect and archaeologist .
born in nice , alpes-maritimes , a student in the `` atelier '' of louis-jules andré , in 1890 he won the prix de rome in the architecture category and in 1922 became a member of the académie des beaux arts .
at the beaux-arts he taught a clinical architecture studio with andré leconte , a former student and winner of the 1927 prix de rome , the distinguished atelier pontremoli-leconte .
pontremoli was appointed director of the beaux-arts in 1932 and is credited with shepherding the school , whose name had become synonymous with neoclassicism , into the twentieth century .
pontremoli is best known for his architectural creation of villa kerylos for théodore and fanny reinach at beaulieu-sur-mer and for the institute for human paleontology in paris for albert i , prince of monaco .
the avenue emmanuel pontremoli in nice is named in his memory .
