COLLECTIONS: 1 - 5 of 5
Byzantine black and white mounted photograph collection
FOUND IN:
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,...
The Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.004
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains fieldwork records and papers produced by the staff of the Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks, as well as Thomas Whittemore and Paul Underwood, between the 1920s and 2000s. It is comprised of correspondence, minutes, financial records, logbooks, fieldwork notebooks, research notes, ground plans, maps, oversize drawings, tracings, paintings, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, and publication materials. The collection is organized by the method of creation and...
Corpus of early Christian and Byzantine silver
FOUND IN:
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 Garden Archives
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
Scope and Contents:
The Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives is a collection of over 6278 individual items of textual materials, drawings, and photographs that document the creation and development of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C. between 1920-1979. Robert Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss purchased the 53 acre property in 1920 known as "The Oaks" and later as Dumbarton Oaks, and within a year they hired Beatrix Farrand, a landscape gardener, to design a garden for the property that combined French,...
Dumbarton Oaks research archive project papers
FOUND IN:
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...
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- Byzantine Institute, Inc., 1930-1962 1
- Dumbarton Oaks 3
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1940- 2
- Friend, Albert Mathias, Jr., 1894-1956 1
- Koehler, Wilhelm Reinhold Walter, 1884-1959 1
- Subject
- Architecture, Byzantine 3
- Acquisition 1
- Afghanistan 1
- Ankara 1
- Archaeological site 1
- Archaeological sites--Bulgaria 1
- Archaeological sites--Egypt 1
- Archaeological sites--Greece 1
- Archaeological sites--Italy 1
- Archaeological sites--Syria 1
- Archaeological sites--Turkey 1
- Archaeology 1
- Archangel 1
- Architectural ornament 1
- Architecture, Early Christian 1
- Art museum 1
- Asinou 1
- Austria 1
- Aya Sofya 1
- Belgium 1
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 1
- Boston 1
- Bulgaria 1
- Byzantine 1
- Byzantine (culture and style) 1
- Byzantine music 1
- Cairo 1
- Cambridge 1
- Christ 1
- Conservation 1
- Coptic 1
- Cramp 1
- Croatia 1
- Cuba 1
- Cyprus 1
- Czech Republic 1
- Deisis 1
- Demre 1
- Denmark 1
- Dibsi Faraj 1
- Donor portrait 1
- Drawing 1
- Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Egypt 1
- Episkopi 1
- Excavation 1
- Field notes 1
- Fieldwork 1
- Financial record 1
- Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 1
- France 1
- Fund raising 1
- Gardens -- Designs and plans 1
- Gardens -- United States -- Pictorial works 1
- Gardens -- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Georgia 1
- Germany 1
- Graffiti 1
- Greece 1
- Hungary 1
- Iconography 1
- Imperial portrait 1
- Inscription 1
- Inscriptions 1
- Israel 1
- Istanbul 1
- Istanbul riots 1
- Italy 1
- Jordan 1
- Kariye Camii 1
- Kozjak 1
- Kurşunlu 1
- Lagoudera 1
- Landscape architecture -- Drawings 1
- Lebanon 1
- Library 1
- Libya 1
- Light 1
- Lythrangomi 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Map 1
- Maps 1
- Metal 1
- Moldova 1
- Monagri 1
- Monastery 1
- Monastery of Saint Anthony 1
- Monastery of Saint Catherine 1
- Monastery of Saint Paul 1
- Montenegro 1
- Mosaic 1
- Mosaics (visual works) 1
- Motion picture 1
- Mount Athos 1
- Mural paintings (visual works) 1
- Negative 1
- Netherlands 1
- Painting 1
- Paintings (visual works) 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Dumbarton Oaks 3
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1940- 2
- Friend, Albert Mathias, Jr., 1894-1956 1
- Underwood, Paul A. (Paul Atkins), 1902-1968 1
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