George Levitine Book collection

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George Levitine Book collection

1564-1911 and undated (majority 1700-1807)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/13955

The Dr. George Levitine Collection consists of more than 2,000 volumes belonging to the late Dr. Levitine, a distinguished scholar of art history and founding chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Maryland. This collection is the generous gift of Eda Levitine, Dr. Levitine's wife. While the Art Library is the primary beneficiary of this gift, the Rare Books department received several hundred works dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

318 items

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6326613

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Levitine, George

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George Levitine (1916-1989), Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Art Department at the University of Maryland, Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1977-78), was a scholar, teacher, and humanist. He was born in Kharkow, Ukraine, in 1916. Due to the Russian Revolution, in 1924 his family immigrated to France. He received a Baccalaurat degree from the Lyce Louis-le-Grand in Paris in 1936 and a P.C.B. (pre-med) at t...