Slobodan Ćurčić
Slobodan Ćurčić ( Cyrillic Слободан Ћурчић, born December 19, 1940 in Sarajevo ; † December 3, 2017 in Thessaloniki , Greece ) was an American art historian and Byzantinist .
Life
After schooling in Belgrade studied Ćurčić first architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he the 1964 Bachelor of Architecture , acquired in 1965 the Master of Architecture . At the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University he received his doctorate in art history in 1975 under Richard Krautheimer with a thesis on the monastery church of Gračanica .
From 1971 to 1982 he taught architectural history in the Department of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1982 until his retirement in 2010 he was Professor of Early Christian and Byzantine Art in the Department of Art and Archeology at Princeton University . He was also the director of Princeton University's Hellenic Studies program 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 .
Since 1997 he has been a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences , since 2004 an honorary member of the Christian Archaeological Society in Athens . In 2006 he became a member of UNESCO's “Experts Committee on the Rehabilitation and Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in Kosovo” for the preservation of cultural assets in Kosovo .
Publications (selection)
- Gračanica. King Milutin's church and its place in Late Byzantine architecture. University Park; London 1979, ISBN 0-271-00218-2
- Art and Architecture in the Balkans. An Annotated Bibliography. Boston 1984, ISBN 0-8161-8326-0
- Gračanica - istorija i arhitektura. Belgrade 1988, ISBN 86-07-00358-5
- The architecture , in Ernst Kitzinger : The mosaics of St. Mary's of the Admiral in Palermo. Washington 1990, ISBN 0-88402-179-3 , 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, ISBN 9963-42-090-7
- 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, ISBN 978-0-300-11570-3
literature
- Mark J. Johnson, Robert Ousterhout, Amy Papalexandrou (Eds.): Approaches to Byzantine architecture and its decoration. Studies in honor of Slobodan Ćurčić. Ashgate, Farnham 2012. ISBN 978-1-4094-2740-7
Web links
- Homepage at Princeton University, with picture and short CV
- CV and list of publications at Princeton University (PDF; 49 kB)
- Curcic, Slobodan . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Denise Valenti: Slobodan Ćurčić, international expert on Byzantine art and architecture, dies at 76. Princeton University, December 11, 2017, accessed on February 3, 2018 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ćurčić, Slobodan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art historian and Byzantinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sarajevo |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 2017 |
| Place of death | Thessaloniki , Greece |