The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) presents a new online exhibit entitled “A Truthful Record: The Byzantine Institute Films”: http://www.doaks.org/icfa/truthful-record. This exhibit aims to reveal the context of the films created by the Byzantine Institute between the 1930s and 1940s by combining them with archival records from the collection The Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton … Continue reading
Written by Fani Gargova, Byzantine Research Associate January 6th is a truly holy day in Christianity. Whether Catholic or Orthodox, yesterday marked an important holiday. Nevertheless, it can be confusing to understand how within one religion, so many different meanings can coincide on the same day. So, let’s deconstruct… The larger part of the Christian … Continue reading
Written by Jessica Cebra, ICFA Departmental Assistant You’ve probably heard about Margaret Alexander from us before during last year’s museum and online exhibit From Clearing to Cataloguing: The Corpus of Tunisian Mosaics, or from a more recent report on processing the materials in the Corpus des Mosaïques de Tunisie (CMT) and Margaret Alexander Collection. The conservation … Continue reading
Written by Kelly Hughes, Former ICFA Intern (Fall 2012-Summer 2013) and Graduate of the Museum Studies Program at George Washington University As part of my graduate program in Museum Studies in George Washington University, I was an intern at the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection for the … Continue reading
The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives is excited to announce the opening our newest exhibit: From Clearing to Cataloging: The Corpus of Tunisian Mosaics, which highlights the Margaret Alexander Collection at Dumbarton Oaks. The collection contains documents and photographs that relate to the fieldwork and publication associated with the Corpus des Mosaïques de Tunisie (CMT), or … Continue reading
You would think that a building that had existed for over 2000 years in a large city and in pretty much continuous use wouldn’t have many secrets. And yet, Van Nice was able to make a few discoveries during his time at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul that went beyond his goal of a structural analysis. … Continue reading
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