Andre Grabar - Boyana, Bulgaria
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N 42° 38.684 E 023° 15.960
34T E 685762 N 4723853
This sign is located near the entrance to the grounds of the Boyana Church- a UNESCO World Heritage site
Waymark Code: WMPV81
Location: Bulgaria
Date Posted: 10/22/2015
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This marble sign is written in Bulgarian, French and English. The English portion reads:
"
1896 - 1990
Eminent archaeologist, professor of Byzantine archaeology at the College de France
and at Harvard University, member of the French Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, of the founders of Byzantine art studies in the 20th century
and, author of the first publications on the Church of Boyana and on Byzantine art in Bulgaria."
Wikipedia (
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"André Nicolaevitch Grabar (July 26, 1896 – October 3, 1990) was an historian of Romanesque art and the art of the Eastern Roman Empire. Born in Ukraine and educated in the Russian Empire, he spent his career in Bulgaria (1919-1922), France (1922-1958) and the USA (1958-1990), and wrote all his papers in French. Grabar was one of the 20th-century founders of the study of the art and icons of the Eastern Roman Empire, adopting a synthetic approach embracing history, theology and interactions with the Islamic world.
His son Oleg Grabar also became an art historian, with a special interest in Islamic art."