Meyer Schapiro
Meyer Schapiro · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
1904, Šiauliai, Lithuania — 1996, New York City, USA
United States (New York)
Meyer Schapiro is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Meyer Schapiro was an American art historian who transformed the study of medieval, early Christian and modern art by combining formal analysis with social, political and semiotic context. Brought to New York from Lithuania as a child, he spent his career at Columbia University and was profiled in the reference work Thinkers of the Twentieth Century. He was born to Jewish parents and raised in a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn.
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Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
