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Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library: Ten Years of Translations
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Video by Tan Chan.
Music: "Concerto for Flute and Harp - 2. Andantino" by Mozart. From The Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music repository at ibiblio.org. CC BY-SA 2.0.
Images:
Gospel Lectionary in Greek. Washington, D.C., Dumbarton Oaks MS 1 (BZ.1939.12.), folio 32r, Ascension.
Irish Evangelary. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51, pp. 2 and 7 (www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0051).
Golden Psalter of St. Gall (Psalterium Gallicanum). St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 22, p. 2 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/0022).
Calendar, Gradual, Sacramentary. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 340, p. 417 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/03...
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Conservation Conversations | Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants
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Hear two of our contributing artists share how botanical artists can facilitate conversations on conservation. This special exhibition presents 20 stunning paintings of Amazonian flora by the artist, explorer, and environmentalist Margaret Mee (1909-1988) in the Dumbarton Oaks rare book collection. These works were acquired by Dumbarton Oaks founder Mildred Bliss in 1966 and 1967 and date to  M...
PREVIEW | Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants
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Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants | March 24-August 23, 2020 This special exhibition presents 20 stunning paintings of Amazonian flora by the artist, explorer, and environmentalist Margaret Mee (1909-1988) in the Dumbarton Oaks rare book collection. These works were acquired by Dumbarton Oaks founder Mildred Bliss in 1966 and 1967 and date to  Mee’s first three expeditions in the Amazon. The ex...
RE/COLLECTIONS | Piecing Together the Fragments in Byzantine Textiles
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September 10, 2019-January 5, 2020, Dumbarton Oaks Museum When you walk into Ornament: Fragments of #Byzantine Fashion, you encounter a wall of textiles: about 40 stunning woven pieces with bold colors & designs. "Pure visual delight," says cocurator Elizabeth Dospěl Williams. But why are they in fragments? Who cut them up? How can art historians & archaeologists learn from these objects today?...
RE/COLLECTIONS | Perspectives on Byzantine Fashion
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September 10, 2019-January 5, 2020, Dumbarton Oaks Museum Discover bright colors & intricate patterns made 1,000 years ago by hand surviving until today, and hear cocurator Elizabeth Dospěl Williams discuss how historians can look to textiles to connect with people in the past through the incredibly intimate form of their dress. Excavations in the 19th century unearthed scores of the ornate dre...
PREVIEW | Ornament: Fragments of Byzantine Fashion
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September 10, 2019-January 5, 2020, Dumbarton Oaks Museum Excavations in the 19th century unearthed scores of the ornate dress textiles that wrapped the people of medieval Egypt in their graves. ORNAMENT: FRAGMENTS OF BYZANTINE FASHION brings together complete tunics, parts of garments, and contemporary replicas of ancient dress to evoke the fashions of this lost world. Discover the exhibition:...
CURATOR AT WORK | Making Knowledge by Making Khipus
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Written in Knots: Undeciphered Accounts of Andean Life April 2-August 18, 2019 at Dumbarton Oaks Museum Learn about Co-Curator Dr. Jeffrey C. Splitstoser’s active research to decipher khipus using experimental archaeology. Long before the arrival of the Spaniards, the people of South America had a system of recorded information that was portable, precise, and so complex that it remains undeciph...
DEEP DIVE | Written in Knots: Undeciphered Accounts of Andean Life
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April 2-August 18, 2019 at Dumbarton Oaks Museum Learn the fascinating history of our rolled-up khipu with Co-Curator Juan Antonio Murro! Long before the arrival of the Spaniards, the people of South America had a system of recorded information that was portable, precise, and so complex that it remains undeciphered today. bit.ly/2E6qtXo
PREVIEW | Written in Knots: Undeciphered Accounts of Andean Life
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April 2-August 18, 2019 at Dumbarton Oaks Museum Long before the arrival of the Spaniards, the people of South America had a system of recorded information that was portable, precise, and so complex that it remains undeciphered today. bit.ly/2EMTK94
Humanities Fellows Part 2
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The Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellowships offer nine months of professional development at outstanding cultural institutions of Washington, DC, to graduating seniors and recent graduates of Harvard College. In this videos, our 2017-2018 cohort talk about the projects they worked on with our partner institutions.
Humanities Fellows Part 1 Intro
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The Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellowships offer nine months of professional development at outstanding cultural institutions of Washington, DC, to graduating seniors and recent graduates of Harvard College. In this video, our 2017-2018 Humanities Fellows share about their experiences.
Outside/IN: Martha Jackson Jarvis at Dumbarton Oaks
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Outside/IN: Martha Jackson Jarvis at Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Pebble Garden
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A video tour of the Pebble Garden in the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens.
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Arbor Terrace
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A tour of the Arbor Terrace in the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens.
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Pool and Loggia
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A tour of the Pool and Loggia in the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens.
Restoration of Dumbarton Oaks' 1927 Steinway Piano
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Restoration of Dumbarton Oaks' 1927 Steinway Piano
Glorifying the City in Counter-Reformation Italy: Girolamo Righettino Rediscovered
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Glorifying the City in Counter-Reformation Italy: Girolamo Righettino Rediscovered
An Uneasy Relation: Byzantium and the Nomads
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An Uneasy Relation: Byzantium and the Nomads
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: South and East Lawns
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: South and East Lawns
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: The Orangery
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: The Orangery
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Beech and Urn Terraces
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Beech and Urn Terraces
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Green Terrace
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Green Terrace
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Star Garden
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Star Garden
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Fountain Terrace
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Fountain Terrace
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Rose Garden
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Rose Garden
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Lovers' Lane Pool and Mélisande's Allée
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Lovers' Lane Pool and Mélisande's Allée
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Ellipse
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Ellipse
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Cherry Hill
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Cherry Hill
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Kitchen and Cutting Gardens
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Kitchen and Cutting Gardens
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Ondine's Walk
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Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Ondine's Walk