Ernst Kitzinger and the Making of Medieval Art History

The essays collected in this volume publish the
proceedings of a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in January 2013 to
mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernst Kitzinger. His work has been,
and still is, fundamentally influential on the present-day discipline of art
history in a wide range of topics. The first half of the book is primarily
biographical, with papers covering his extraordinary career, which began in
Germany, Italy and England in the tumultuous years preceding World War II,
before leading to internment in Australia and, eventually, to America. The
second half of the book is devoted to assessments of Kitzinger's scholarship,
including his concern with the theory of style, with the early medieval art of
Britain and continental Europe, with the art of Norman Sicily and with the
sources and impact of iconoclasm.