Vojeslav Molé

Vojeslav Molè (1906)

Vojeslav Molé (born December 14, 1886 near Gorizia , † December 5, 1973 ) was a Yugoslav art historian .

Life

Molè studied Slavic Studies , Art History , Romance and Polish Philology and, episodically, Law in Vienna , Cracow and Rome . In 1912 he received his doctorate . His dissertation was published in 1922.

After spending a year in Rome, Molè worked with Frane Bulić in Split in the Office for the Preservation of Monuments for Dalmatia . At the end of the First World War he was in Tomsk , where in 1919 he wrote a post-doctoral thesis on a graphic collection of the Stroganov family. From 1920 to 1924, Molè taught ancient and Byzantine art history at the University of Ljubljana . Between 1925 and 1960, apart from the time of the Second World War, he stayed in Krakow and was employed as a professor of art history. At the Jagiellonian University he founded the library specializing in Byzantine studies.

Publications

• An illustrated manuscript from 1649 with the topography of the Cosmas Indicopleustes and the Hexameron of the Bulgarian exarch John. A contribution to late Byzantine art history . 1922 (written 1912).
• The early Christian and early Byzantine art. An introduction to Byzantine art history . 1931 (Polish: Sztuka starochrześcijańska i wczesnobizantyńska. Wstęp do historii sztuki bizantyńskiej .).
• Russian art until 1914 . 1955 (Original title: Sztuka rosyjska do roku 1914. ).
• The art of the South Slavs . 1962 (Original title: Sztuka Słowian południowych .).