Viktor Lazarev

[1] He was the son of Nikita Lazarev, a Moscow architect, and was related by blood to Wassily Kandinsky.

In 1945 he was flown into Berlin to supervise the looting of art treasures from the Zoo Tower, including the Pergamon Altar.

It was translated into Italian in an expanded and revised version as Storia della pittura bizantina (1967).

Lazarev was also known for his many writings on the Italian Renaissance, its beginnings and the evolution of Western portrait painting.

This article includes content derived from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978, which is partially in the public domain.