Thomas Schlesser is director of the Hartung-Bergman Foundation in Antibes and art historian. He has taught art history for several years at the École du Louvre, Science Po, ESAG Penninghen and École Polytechnique de Lausanne. He has published about fifteen works of history of art and aesthetics, including The Universe without man - the arts against anthropocentrism (1755-2016) (Hazan, 2016).