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Maria Sibylla Merian

A contribution to the 25th anniversary of the National Museum of Women in the Arts

The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century

An exhibit of materials from the Dumbarton Oaks Rare Book Collection to accompany the Dumbarton Oaks 2013 fall symposium.

The Holy Apostles—Visualizing a Lost Monument

An online exhibition to accompany the 2015 Byzantine symposium on the Holy Apostles and an on-site exhibition in the Orientation Gallery of Dumbarton Oaks.

Before the Blisses: Nineteenth-Century Connoisseurship of the Byzantine Minor Arts

This exhibition examines the ways in which nineteenth-century collections and illustrated catalogs impacted the study and appreciation of early Christian, ...

Margaret Mee

Margaret Mee, botanical artist of the Amazon

Philip Johnson at Dumbarton Oaks

This online resource commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Philip Johnson’s Pre-Columbian pavilion at Dumbarton Oaks. Johnson’s architectural masterpiece ...

Capturing Warfare: Enemies and Allies in the Pre-Columbian World

This exhibit highlights two representations of warfare in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica and the Andes.

Robert & Monnoyer: French Botanical Artists of the Seventeenth Century

This exhibit provides illustrations from the leading proponents of two styles of French botanical illustration from the seventeenth century.

Standing on Ceremony: Processions, Pathways, and Plazas

An exhibit to accompany the Pre-Columbian Studies 2014 fall symposium, “Processions in the Ancient Americas: Approaches and Perspectives.”

A Truthful Record: The Byzantine Institute Films

This online exhibit presents the moving images produced by the Byzantine Institute during its restoration and cleaning activities at the Red Sea Monasteries in ...