Kurt Weitzmann

Kurt Weitzmann was born in Klein Almerode, (near Kassel) Germany on May 7, 1904 and died in Princeton, New Jersey on June 7, 1993. He was a highly influential art historian who studied Byzantine and medieval art. He attended the universities of Münster, Würzburg and Vienna before moving to Princeton in 1935. He is well-known for the time he spent researching the icons and architecture at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.

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", 1948
* "The Fresco Cycle of S. Maria di Castelseprio, 1952
* Ancient book illumination, 1957
* 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 Frescoes of the Dura Synagogue and Christian Art, 1990

See also

* Paris Psalter
* Castelseprio
* Adolph Goldschmidt
* A. M. Friend

External links

* http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/w/weitzmann.shtml
* http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/weitzmannk.htm