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Scholar

Kurt Weitzmann

1904–1993 · Germany, United States

Art historian. Worked for Princeton University.

Life and work

  1. 2000
    Named by Leader (2000) as a scholar who studied the iconographic sources of the David plates, the Byzantine silver plates found in Cyprus (the plates are discussed on pp. 407, 415, 417).

    Ruth E. Leader (2000). The David Plates Revisited: Transforming the Secular in Early Byzantium. The Art Bulletin 82, 407-427. College Art Association, pp. 407

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  1. 1.Ruth E. Leader (2000). “The David Plates Revisited: Transforming the Secular in Early Byzantium”. The Art Bulletin 82, 407-427. College Art Association. Online
  2. 2.Wikidata. Kurt Weitzmann (Q70362). Online
  3. 3.Dimitra Kotoula (2004). “‘Maniera Cypria’ and thirteenth century icon production on the island of Cyprus: a critical approach”. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 28, 89-100.
  4. 4.Kurt Weitzmann (1970). “Prolegomena to a Study of the Cyprus Plates”. Metropolitan Museum Journal 3, 97-111.
  5. 5.Dimitra Kotoula, 2004, ‘Maniera Cypria’ and thirteenth century icon production on the island of Cyprus: a critical approach.
  6. 6.Kurt Weitzmann, 1970.

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