Kurt Weitzmann was born in Klein Almerode (Witzenhausen

Witzenhausen

Witzenhausen is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany.It was granted town rights in 1225, and until 1974, it was a district seat....

, near Kassel

Kassel

Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

) 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, due to Nazi prosecution. He is well-known for the time he spent researching the icons and architecture at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai

Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site...

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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
  Joshua Roll
  The Joshua Roll is a 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 the Vatican Library....
  
  , 1948
• The Fresco Cycle of S. Maria di Castelseprio
  Castelseprio
  Castelseprio was the site of a Roman fort in antiquity, and a significant Lombard town in the early Middle Ages, before being destroyed and abandoned in 1287. It is today preserved as an archaeological park in the modern comune of Castelseprio, near the modern village of the same name...
  
  , 1952
• Ancient book illumination, 1959
• Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, 1970
• The Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai
  Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
  Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
  
  , 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
  Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...
  
  es of the Dura
  Dura
  Dura may refer to:* Dura , a Palestinian town in the southern West Bank located eleven kilometers southwest of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate* Dura language, a critically endangered language of Nepal...
  
   Synagogue and Christian Art, 1990

External links

• http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/weitzmannk.htm