Jean-Marc Moret (born 6 June 1942 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss archaeologist and art historian. He was a professor of art history and archaeology at the Université Louis Lumière (Lyon II) (Lyon, France). He took part in the excavation in Metaponto with Antonio De Siena and in Palmyra with the Polish team led by Michal Gawlokowski. He also started two excavations in Italy, in Ostia Antica (the Schola del Traiano) and in Garaguso (Basilicata). He is known as a major specialist of ancient iconography. His master work, l'Ilioupersis dans la céramique Italiote, is considered to be an important publication on South Italian vase painting and iconography.
(in French) L'Ilioupersis dans la céramique italiote. Les mythes et leur expression figurée au IVe siècle, Roma 1975.
(in French) Œdipe, la Sphinx et les Thébains. Essai de mythologie iconographique, Roma 1984.
(in French) Les pierres gravées représentant le rapt du Palladion, Mainz am Rhein 1997.
(in Italian) I marmi di Garaguso. Vittorio di Cicco e l'imbroglio della loro scoperta, Venosa 2014.
(in French) "Ce morcel ne puis avaler" Images entre histoire et théologie au XIIe et XIIIe siècles, Genève 2017.
(in French) "Le départ de Bellérophon sur un cratère campanien de Genève", Antike Kunst 15.2 (1972), pp. 95-106.
(in French) "Le jugement de Pâris Grande-Grèce : mythe et actualité politique. A propos du lébès paestan d'une collection privée", Antike Kunst 21.2 (1978), pp. 76-98.
(in French) "Un ancêtre du phylactère : le pilier inscrit des vases italiotes", Revue Archéologique 22.1 (1979), pp. 3-34.
(in French) "L' "apollinisation" de l'imagerie légendaire à Athènes dans la seconde moitié du Ve siècle", Revue Archéologique 25.2 (1982), pp. 109-136.
(in French) "Ἰο ἀποταυρουμένη", Revue Archéologique (1990), pp. 3-26.
(in French) "Circé tisseuse sur les vases du Cabirion", Revue Archéologique (1991), pp. 227-266.
(in French) "Les départs des Enfers dans l’imagerie apulienne", Revue Archéologique (1993), pp. 293-351.
(in French) "Le Laocoon agenouillé : généalogie d'un type iconographique", Revue Archéologique (2002), pp. 3-29.
(in French) "Médée à Eleusis" in Collection Archéologie et Histoire de l’Antiquité de l’Université Lumière-Lyon 2, vol. VII : Les cultes locaux dans les mondes grec et romain. Actes du colloque de Lyon (7-8 juin 2001), Paris 2004, pp. 143-151.
(in French) "Dessins sans dessein : une clé de lecture simple pour les métopes 13-20 Sud du Parthénon" (with Domingo Gasparro), Revue Archéologique (2005), pp. 3-25.
(in Italian) "Le feste dei Nani" in Ch. Bocherens (ed.), Nani in Festa. Iconografia, religione e politica a Ostia durante il secondo triumvirato, Bari 2012, pp. 49-108.
(in Italian) "Ostia, Roma, Tibur : Hercules Victor e I pirati" in Ch. Bocherens (ed.), Nani in Festa. Iconografia, religione e politica a Ostia durante il secondo triumvirato, Bari 2012, pp. 109-135.
(in Italian) "I nani di Antonio" in Ch. Bocherens (ed.), Nani in Festa. Iconografia, religione e politica a Ostia durante il secondo triumvirato, Bari 2012, pp. 137-162.
(in Italian) "Arte "popolare" e tradizione ellenistica" in Ch. Bocherens (ed.), Nani in Festa. Iconografia, religione e politica a Ostia durante il secondo triumvirato, Bari 2012, pp. 163-177.
(in French) "Les Iconocentristes, les Philodramatistes et les Arbitres", Bulletin Antieke Beschavingen, 88 (2013), pp. 171-189.
He began excavating in 1999 the so-called Schola del Traiano at Ostia Antica. In 2008, he began excavating the so-called Vigna Manzi at Garaguso (Basilicata).
