Mosaics (visual works)
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Franklin M. Biebel photograph albums of mosaics
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.BZ.006
Scope and Contents:
Assembled by Biebel around 1955, the albums include photographs, plans, and documentary information on floor mosaics from Byzantium and the West. It also includes one album of coptic textiles. The most extensive coverage is of the Gerasa (Jerash) mosaics. Other regions represented include: Algeria, Bulgaria, Egypt, England, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Russia, and Syria.Album titles are transcribed from typewritten labels on album spines...
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,...