Antoine Chrysostome Quatremere De Quincy, a French archaeologist, born in Paris, Oct. 28, 1755, died Dec. 28, 1849. In 1785 a paper Sur l'architecture égyptienne secured for him a prize from the academy of inscriptions; he was then engaged as a contributor to the Encyclopedia méthodique, for which he wrote a Dictionnaire de l'architecture (3 vols. 4to, 1786-1825). He took an active part in the events of the French revolution, and held several political offices under the republic, consulate, and empire, and after the restoration. In 1815 he was appointed superintendent of public monuments, and in 1818 professor of archaeology in the royal library; and he was secretary general of the academy of fine arts from 1816 to 183,9. Among his voluminous works are: Le Jupiter olympien (fol., 1814), a restoration of the great work of Phidias; De l'imitation dans les beaux arts (1823; English translation by J. C. Kent, 8vo, 1837); Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Raphaël (1824); Canova et ses ouvrages (1834); and Histoire de la vie de Mi-chel-Ange (1835).