Slobodan Ćurčić (

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Слободан Ћурчић; Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 19 December 1940 – Thessaloniki, Greece, 3 December 2017) was an American

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and Byzantinist.

Life

After completing school in

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, Ćurčić first studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he obtained a Bachelor of Architecture in 1964 and a Master of Architecture in 1965. At the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University he received his doctorate in art history in 1975 under

Richard Krautheimer Richard Krautheimer (6 July 1897 in Fürth (Franconia), Germany – 1 November 1994 in Rome, Italy) was a 20th-century art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist. Biography Krautheimer was born in Germany in 1897, th ...

with a thesis on the monastery church of

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. 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

Serbian Academy of Sciences The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

, from 2004 an honorary member of the Christian Archaeological Society in Athens. In 2006 he became a member of the "Experts Committee on the Rehabilitation and Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in Kosovo" of the UNESCO for the preservation of cultural property in Kosovo.

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 (December 27, 1912 – January 22, 2003) was a German- American historian of late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine art. Biography Kitzinger was born into a well-educated Jewish family in Munich; his father, Wilhelm Nathan ...

, ''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 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Historians of Byzantine art