Daniel Arasse

Daniel Dominique Arasse (5 November 1944 in Algiers – 14 December 2003 in Paris) was a French art historian who specialised in the Renaissance and Italian art.

His publication, Le Détail, Pour une histoire rapprochée de la peinture (1992) won the Charles-Blanc Prize in 1993. Another book La Guillotine et L'imaginaire de la Terreur (1987), was translated into English as The Guillotine and the Terror (1989).