Slobodan Ćurčić ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Ћурчић;

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 2 ...

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, 19 December 1940 –

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, 3 December 2017) was an American

art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...

and

Byzantinist Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination ...

Life

After completing school in

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, Ćurčić first studied architecture at the

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, where he obtained a Bachelor of Architecture in 1964 and a Master of Architecture in 1965. In 1975, he received his doctorate in art history from

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Richard Krautheimer Richard Krautheimer (6 July 1897 in Fürth (Franconia), Germany – 1 November 1994 in Rome, Italy) was a German art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist. Biography Krautheimer was born in a Jewish family in Germ ...

with a thesis on the monastery church of Gračanica. From 1971 to 1982 he taught architectural history at the Department of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1982 until his retirement in 2010 he taught as a professor for Early Christian and Byzantine Art at the Department of Art and Archeology at Princeton University. In addition, he was director of the Hellenic Studies Program at Princeton University from 2006 to 2010. His main area of research was Byzantine architecture, especially the Middle and Late Byzantine Period. In 2010 he presented a summary of his research in the monumental work ''Architecture in the Balkans from Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent''. From 1997 he was a member of the

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, from 2004 an honorary member of the Christian Archaeological Society in

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. In 2006 he became a member of the "Experts Committee on the Rehabilitation and Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in Kosovo" of the

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for the preservation of cultural property in

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Publications (selection)

* '' Gračanica. King Milutin's church and its place in Late Byzantine architecture.'' University Park; London 1979, * ''Art and Architecture in the Balkans. An Annotated Bibliography.'' Boston 1984, * ''Gračanica - istorija i arhitektura.'' Belgrade 1988, * "The architecture", in

Ernst Kitzinger Ernst Kitzinger FBA (December 27, 1912 – January 22, 2003) was a German-American historian of late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine art. Early life and education Kitzinger was born into a well-educated Jewish family in Munich; his fath ...

, ''The mosaics of St. Mary’s of the Admiral in Palermo.'' Washington 1990, , pp. 27–104. * ''Some Observations and Questions Regarding Early Christian Architecture in Thessaloniki.'' Thessaloniki 2000 * ''Religious Settings of the Late Byzantine Sphere.'' In: Helen Evans (ed.): ''Byzantium. Faith and Power (1261–1557).'' New York 2004, pp. 66–77. * ''Middle Byzantine architecture on Cyprus: provincial or regional?'', Nicosia, The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation 2000, * with Svetlana Popović: ''Naupara,'' (= ''Korpus sacralne arhitekture Srbije u kasnom srednjem veku'' 1), Belgrade 2001 * ''The role of late Byzantine Thessalonike in church architecture in the Balkans'', in ''Dumbarton Oaks Papers'' 57, 2003, pp. 65–84. * ''Architecture in the Balkans from Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent'', New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press 2010, * ''Kartografija'' (2013)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ćurčić, Slobodan 1940 births 2017 deaths American art historians University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Historians of Byzantine art University of Illinois School of Architecture alumni