David Talbot Rice

David Talbot Rice ( born July 11, 1903 in Rugby, † March 12 1972 in Cheltenham ) was a British art historian and Byzantine Studies.

Talbot Rice grew up in Gloucestershire (his father Henry Charles Talbot -Rice ( 1862-1931 ) there had a good), went to Eton to school and studied at Oxford University ( Christ Church College ) Archaeology and Anthropology. He belonged to the circle around Evelyn Waugh (shown in the Brideshead Revisited ), where he met his future wife Tamara. In 1925 he took part in Kish in Iraq in the excavations of the Oxford Field Museum. In the 1920s, he continued his studies in Paris with Gabriel Millet at the College de France and traveled to Greece, the Balkans, Bulgaria and Turkey to excavations. In 1927 he was involved in the excavations of the British Academy in the Grand Palace and the Hippodrome in Istanbul. In 1932 he became a lecturer at the newly founded Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. In 1934 he became a professor at the University of Edinburgh (Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art ), where he remained until his death.

During World War II he headed the Middle East in the Military Intelligence ( MI3b ), which was also responsible for the Balkans (but not the Soviet Union) .1943, he joined the Intelligence Corps and was last Major.

1957 to 1962 he was involved in the excavation and restoration of the wall frescoes of the Hagia Sophia ( Trebizond ), about which he wrote a book. The church he had first visited in 1928.

In Edinburgh, he sought a combination of art history and visual art and introduced a joint degree program. The Talbot Rice Gallery at the University is named after him, but was established only after his death.

Talbot Rice was a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

He was married since 1927 with the originally from Russia Tamara Talbot Rice ( 1904-1993 ), who worked with him on art -historical.

Writings

  • Robert Byron The Birth of Western Painting: A History of Colour, shape, and Iconography Illustrated from the Paintings of Mistra and Mount Athos, of Giotto and Duccio, and of El Greco. London, Routledge, 1930.
  • Byzantine Art Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1935, Penguin 1968
  • Russian icons. London, Penguin Books, 1947.
  • English Art, 871-1100. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952.
  • The Beginnings of Christian Art London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1957.
  • The Art of Byzantium. London, Thames and Hudson, 1959.
  • Byzantine icons. London, Faber and Faber, 1959.
  • Constantinople: Byzantium - Istanbul. London: Elek Books, 1965.
  • Dark Ages: the Making of European Civilization. London, Thames and Hudson, 1965.
  • The Dawn of European Civilization: The Dark Ages, New York: McGraw Hill 1966
  • Byzantine Painting: the load phase. New York, Dial Press, 1968.
  • Tamara Talbot Rice The Icons of Cyprus, Allen and Unwin 1937
  • Tamara Talbot Rice Icons and Their Dating: a Comprehensive Study of Their Chronology and Provenance, London: Thames and Hudson, 1974
  • With TamaraTalbot Rice Icons and Their History, Woodstock (New York): Overlook Press 1974
  • Tamara Talbot Rice: Icons: the Natasha Allen Collection. Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 1968
  • Tamara Talbot Rice, Tancred Borenius Russian Art, London 1935 ( exhibition catalog)
  • Yugoslavia: Mediaeval Frescoes, Greenwich (Connecticut): New York Graphic Society, 1955

With his wife he gave in 1932 Caravan Cities by Michael Rostovtzeff out and he edited the second edition of William R. Lethaby Medieval Art, from the Peace of the Church to the Eve of the Renaissance, 312-1350 (New York: Nelson, 1949 )

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