Dr. Frank G.J.M. Müller is a Dutch classical archaeologist and art historian who received his academic training at the University of Leiden, a well-known centre for the study of Roman wall painting. He is a pupil of Professor F.L. Bastet, who in turn was a student of Professor H. Beyen, an authority on the field of the so-called Second Style. Through his inspiring lectures on different subjects of Roman Art, notably his lectures about the Dionysiac frieze from the Villa dei Misteri in Pompei (see his article ‘Fabularum dispositas explicationes’ published in Bulletin Antieke Beschaving 49, 1975, 206-240), Professor Bastet aroused his interest in iconological problems in Roman art. In 1987 he obtained his doctorate at the University of Nijmegen with a Ph. D. thesis on a beautiful sarcophagus in the Villa Albani in Rome (Frank G.J.M. Müller, Imago explicatu difficillima, The Hague 1987). The English version of this thesis was published in 1994 (The So-Called Peleus and Thetis Sarcophagus in the Villa Albani), together with two other iconological studies, one devoted to the cycle of wall paintings from the oecus of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor in Boscoreale (The Wall Paintings from the Oecus of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor in Boscoreale) and the other to the ancient Roman fresco known as the Aldobrandini Wedding (The Aldobrandini Wedding). 

These books were published originally by J.C. Gieben and distributed by Brill Publishers in Leiden following the unexpected death of J.C. Gieben. Recently, in December 2019, Dr. Müller published The So-Called Aldobrandini Wedding. Research from the Years 1990 to 2016. This second, entirely new, monograph on the Aldobrandini Wedding, published by FM Art Publications in Amsterdam, is the record of renewed original research prompted by the many scholarly studies on both the Aldobrandini Wedding itself and Roman wall painting in general that have appeared from the nineties onwards. Dr. Müller is a private scholar. He lives in Amsterdam.