Kurt Weitzmann (March 7, 1904, Kleinalmerode (

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, near

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) – June 7, 1993,

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) was a German turned American art historian who was a leading figure in the study of

Late Antique Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodization has since been wide ...

and

Byzantine art Byzantine art comprises the body of artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from the decline of Rome, decline of western Rome and ...

in particular. He attended the universities of

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and

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before moving to Princeton in 1935, due to Nazi persecution. He is well known for the time he spent researching the icons and architecture at

Saint Catherine's Monastery Saint Catherine's Monastery ( , ), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Located at the foot of Mount Sinai ...

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. He was elected to the

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in 1964 and the

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in 1978.

Works

* Greek mythology in Byzantine art, 1951 * Geistige Grundlagen und Wesen der makedonischen Renaissance, 1963 * Illustration roll and codex, 1947, ²1970 * ''"Studies in manuscript illumination"'' series * ''The

Joshua Roll The Joshua Roll is a Byzantine art, Byzantine illuminated manuscript of highly unusual format, probably of the 10th century Macedonian Renaissance, believed to have been created by artists of the imperial workshops in Constantinople, and now in ...

'', 1948 * ''The Fresco Cycle of S. Maria di Castelseprio, 1952 * Ancient book illumination, 1959 * Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, 1970 * The Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai, The Icons, I. 1976 * Studies in classical and Byzantine manuscript illumination, 1971 * Byzantine book illumination and ivories, 1980 * Byzantine liturgical Psalters and Gospels, 1980 * (with H. L. Kessler) The

Fresco Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...

es of the Dura Synagogue and Christian Art, 1990

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* * http://arthistorians.info/weitzmannk
Bibliography Kurt Weitzmann

Estate Kurt Weitzmann and Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler
1904 births 1993 deaths German art historians American art historians Historians of manuscript illumination Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States People from Witzenhausen 20th-century American historians Corresponding fellows of the British Academy German male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America American male non-fiction writers {{US-art-historian-stub Historians of Byzantine art Members of the American Philosophical Society

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