Record ID:
35626375 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50017565
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19150912
  • Ukraine
Death:
  • 20080908
  • England
Associated with:
  • Poland England
Occupations:
  • Art historians
Used for:
  • Zarnecki, Jerzy
  • Zarnecki, George, 1915-
Notes:
  • His Polish art, 1945.
  • Times online WWW site, Sept. 15, 2008 (Professor George Zarnecki, CBE; b. Jerzy Zarnecki, Sept. 12, 1915, Poland; d. Sept. 8, 2008; pioneering historian of Romanesque art)
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1915; art historian; Ph.D.)
  • Wikipedia 6 June 2019: George Zarnecki (George Jerzy Zarnecki (Polish: Jerzy Zarnecki), CBE, FBA, FSA (12 September 1915 – 8 September 2008) was a Polish Professor of History of Art. He was a scholar of Medieval art and English Romanesque sculpture, an area of study where he did pioneering research. Zarnecki was born in Stara Osota, then in Russia, but now part of the Ukraine. His parents were Polish speaking. He attended Uniwersytet Jagiellon´ski (M.A. 1938). During World War II he was captured by the Nazis but escaped, reaching England via Spain, in 1943. After the war, Zarnecki stayed on in England and in 1945 attained a position as assistant at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and obtaining his Ph. D. in 1950. In 1961 he became deputy director of tje Courtauld Institute, and was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England on 1 January 1972-1984. He retired from the Courtauld in 1982, but continued to be active, especially in the area of British Romanesque art.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zarnecki
Local system number:
  • 000000630070
  • abv00516763
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng DLC DLC IEN rda ANL VJTL