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Oleg Grabar
References online -- just a start....


 * Google web search
 * Find3 results for "Oleg Grabar":
 * Find3 results for his father "Andre Grabar":
 * ************ Obituaries ******************
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/world/middleeast/13grabar.html
 * http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1294814743125981.xml&coll=5

Personal life and honors
Oleg Grabar was married to his wife Terry for 59 years. They had two children, Nicolas and Anne Louise, and three grandchildren.

My very rough translation of http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Grabar
Oleg Grabar (born in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, November 3, 1929 - died in Princeton, NJ), January 8 2011) was an archaeologist and art historian, specializing in the history of Islamic art. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1960.

Son of the Byzantinist Andre Grabar, Oleg Grabar Was a student of Oriental languages and art history, first in Paris, where he earned a degree in history in 1948. He then moved to the United States to study at Harvard (BA 1950) and then at Princeton University, graduating in 1955 a doctorate in literature and art history.

He began a career in 1954 as professor at the University of Michigan (1954-69). He taught, from 1969 at Harvard, where he became in 1980 the first holder of the Chair of the Aga Khan. In connection with this position, he also directed, from 1983 to 1991, the Muqarnas journal published by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. From 1990 he taught at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, becoming emeritus in 1998. He is also director of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. In 2001, Oleg Grabar was charged by UNESCO with an inspection of the Temple Mount excavations in Jerusalem. Oleg Grabar is also a foreign correspondent of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of Paris, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Medieval Academy of America, Honorary Member by the University Austrian corresponing and Fellow of the British Academy. Medal Giorgio Levi Della Vida has been given in 1996 by the University of California. He also holds the Charles Lang Freer Medal, awarded in 2001 by the Smithsonian Institution "for his brilliant contributions to knowledge and understanding of Eastern civilizations as they appear in their arts" 9. In 2005, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Writing in Art College Art Association. In 2010, Oleg Grabar was still active and continuing to publish work for both popular and scholarly audiences.

Grabar had research interests in many different areas. Focusing on the early centuries of Islam, he directed excavations at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, Syria,. He was also noted as one of the best specialists of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, since his article "The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. " His book The formation of Islamic art, published in 1973, was a culmination of many areas of his research. Oleg Grabar also did scholarly work on Persian painting. With Sheila Blair, he published a study on the manuscript of Greater Shah Nameh Mongol.

His work Penser l'art islamique : une esthétique de l'ornement denotes also reflections on the nature of Islamic art.

Brattle Street and Tory Row
Tried out a few other possible find templates to see if "Find3" is one of a set...because some of the options from Find3 (for example, the Bing results) are useless garbage -- and nothing good emerged, so I'm archiving this.
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