Publication details

Dissipating Strzygowski's Shadow. Weitzmann on Armenian Book Illumination

Authors

PALLADINO Adrien

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Convivium : Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean. Seminarium Kondakovianum Series Nova
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://academia.edu/63461978/Dissipating_Strzygowskis_Shadow_Weitzmann_on_Armenian_Book_Illumination
Keywords Armenia and Byzantium; Armenian book illumination; history of art history; Kurt Weitzmann
Description In a short book published in 1933, Professor Kurt Weitzmann made his only venture into the field of Armenian art. This chronicle argues that this interest was motivated not only by the author’s interest in and knowledge of the art of illuminated manuscripts, but also by direct life circumstances. Weitzmann’s study must be understood as a scholarly and humanistic reaction against the studies of the Austrian professor Josef Strzygowski (1862–1941). Rereading Die armenische Buchmalerei reveals that, in the 1930s, Weitzmann not only shed a new light on the visual culture of Armenia in its relationship with Byzantium and the Mediterranean, but he also promoted a movement beyond the search for national origins toward an international Hellenistic Mediterranean.
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