LONDON, ENGLAND.- Dr Marian Wenzel FSA, art historian, artist and charity director died. Born in Pittsburgh, USA, she arrived in Britain in 1959 to study philosophy under A. J. Ayer. She quickly decided her real interests lay elsewhere and left to study art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art under Anthony Blunt’s directorship. It was at the Courtauld that her great love for Bosnia-Herzegovina first took root. Her interest in the country had been stimulated earlier, however, by the books and artefacts brought back by a relative who had helped to build railways in Bosnia after World War I. A visit to Bosnia led her to decide to write her doctoral thesis on the monumental Bosnian medieval tombstones, the steæci ; Anthony Blunt remembered long afterwards approving Marian’s budget for her field work which included an amount for purchasing donkeys, the best form of transport for following the routes of medieval tracks along which the greatest concentrations of the tombstones lay. Her research, beginning in 1960, recording and sorting the decorative motifs found on the steæci, proved to be a groundbreaking work.