Grabar Andre

Andre Grabar (b. July 26, 1896, Kiev – d. October 5, 1990, Paris) was an art historian, researcher of early Christian and Byzantine art, professor of the Collège de France and the École Pratique des Hautes Études, a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and scientific societies and academies of many countries. He is the author of fundamental works on iconography, painting and applied arts, and the history of architecture of late antique and early medieval Byzantium and Eastern European countries. Monuments of ancient Georgian art are also mentioned in some of his works.

Literary works: L’ Empereur dans l’art byzantin. Recherches sur l’art officiel de l’Empire d’Orient, P., 1936; Byzantine painting. Historical and critical Study, Geneva, 1953; Les revêtements en or et en argent des icones byzantines du Moyen-âge, Venise, 1975.

V. Beridze