About the Author

Slobodan Ćurčić is Associate Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His doctoral dissertation on Gračanica, written for the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, was awarded the 1977 prize from the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. The book has also received a grant from The Millard Meiss Publication Fund of the College Art Association of America.