Dumbarton Oaks
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Bob Cook papers
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Arnold Arboretum Archives
Collection Identifier: I B REC
Abstract:
This collection documents Bob Cook's (1946- ) work as Director of the Arnold Arboretum from 1989-2009. The Director's papers reflect a wide range of administrative functions including strategic planning, project management, fundraising, and community relations.
Byzantine black and white mounted photograph collection
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Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.BZ.001
Scope and Contents:
The collection includes over 75,000 mounted black and white photographic prints of Byzantine art, architecture, and archaeology, its bulk being from the fourth through the fifteenth century, along with corresponding negatives where available. The emphasis is on materials that originated in the Byzantine empire and neighboring cultures: Italy, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Romania, Russia, Armenia, and Georgia, as well as Greece, Syria,...
Corpus of early Christian and Byzantine silver
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Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.020
Scope and Contents:
The collection documents approximately 1,500 Byzantine silver vessels and utensils produced for liturgical and domestic use between 300 and 1453 CE within the geographical boundaries of the Roman and Byzantine empires (as known, ca. 1985). Silver vessels from Western Europe through the seventh century and Veneto-Byzantine silver are included; Sassanian silver, coins, jewelry, armor, icon frames, settings, and ingots are excluded.Mounted photographs of objects correspond to...
Dumbarton Oaks research archive project papers
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Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.018
Scope and Contents:
In the academic year of 1941-1942, Dumbarton Oaks initiated two research projects - "Fontes" and "Archives of Byzantine Art" (also known as "Archives" or "Research Archives") - which were initially supervised by Wilhelm Koehler (1941-1943) and followed by other renowned scholars, and carried out by Junior Fellows (see the list below).The aim was to create an inventory of Early Christian and Byzantine monuments by compiling bibliographic information and photographic reproductions...