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Medieval

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 3 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...

Arthur Kingsley Porter photographs of architecture and manuscripts

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: PH.BZ.007
Scope and Contents: This collection includes selected duplicate photographs from Arthur Kingsley Porter's collection housed in the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University, which is comprised of images of medieval architecture and sculpture taken by Porter and his wife, Lucy. These photos were printed from original nitrate negatives owned by the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University in the 1980s. The nitrate negatives were subsequently destroyed. These duplicate photographs depict Byzantine and Medieval...

Paul Atkins Underwood research papers

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.019
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of 6 boxes of records that contain: lecture and research notes; note cards; drafts for outlines and essays; bibliographies and lists of objects; and photographs of Byzantine art and architectural drawings. These items were primarily created by Paul Underwood between 1936 and 1950 and by Albert Mathias Friend, Jr. between 1945 and the mid-1950s. The collection includes Underwood’s research papers as a graduate student in the Department of Art and Archeology...