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Article: Obituary: Professor Hugo Buchthal
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 19, 1996
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Under a warm Athenian night sky, illuminated by lights
suspended in the pistachio trees of the garden of the Byzantine
Museum, stood the silver-haired and slightly stooping figure of
Hugo Buchthal. Not far off stood the more upright but equally
silver-haired figure of Kurt Weitzmann. The occasion was the
Fifteenth International Byzantine Congress in 1975.
Professors Buchthal and Weitzmann, both by that date retired,
had been figures of legendary authority in the history of Early
Christian, Byzantine and medieval art since the 1930s. Around each
stood a posse of former students, mainly Americans, from among
whose ranks the great men gazed out benevolently like proud
godfathers. For an ...