Hugo Buchthal was a Jewish German art historian, expert in medieval illuminated manuscripts and Byzantine studies. He studied at the Warburg Institute in Germany and emigrated in 1939 to London, when the Warburg Institute was transferred there. In 1957, he published the highly influential "Miniature Painting in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem." In 1963 he was a visiting professor at Columbia University, New York, and in 1965 became the first Ailsa Mellon Bruce Chair in Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York

Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty

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Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)

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