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The Philip Johnson Pavilion
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filed under:
Birthing Figure,
Elizabeth Benson,
Fallingwater,
Glass House,
James Curtin,
Jeffrey Quilter,
Mimar Sinan,
Philip Johnson,
Philip Johnson Pavilion,
Pre-Columbian Studies,
Richard Diehl,
echo,
leaks,
pre-columbian
Philip Johnson, perhaps best known for his Glass House, played an important role at Dumbarton Oaks by designing what is often called the Philip ...
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Oleg Grabar
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filed under:
André Grabar,
Bert Friend,
Byzantine Studies,
Dvornik,
El Greco,
Glen Bowersock,
Harvard,
Islamic,
James Curtin,
Kitzinger,
Mildred Bliss,
Oleg Grabar,
Otto Demus,
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study,
University of Paris,
Vasiliev,
collaboration,
symposium
Oleg Grabar, the great Islamic art and architecture historian, moved to the United Staes in 1948 when his father, André Grabar, took the position of Director ...
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The Music of Dumbarton Oaks
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filed under:
Aaron Copland,
Bliss,
Blissania,
Concerto in E-flat,
Dumbarton Quintet,
Edward Keenan,
Elizabeth Sgalitzer Ettinghausen,
Friends of Music,
Glen Bowerstock,
Igor Stravinsky,
James Curtin,
Joan Reinthaler,
Joan Sutherland,
Joan Tower,
Kenneth Pasmanick,
Leontyne Price,
Nadia Boulanger,
National Symphony Orchestra,
Nonet for Strings,
Valerie Stains,
Washington Post,
friends of music,
music room
The Friends of Music program has long made Dumbarton Oaks a staple of the Washington music scene. Started in the 1930s when the Blisses informally invited ...
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Alexander Kazhdan
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filed under:
Alexander Kazhdan,
Anthony Cutler,
Betsy Rosasco,
Byzantine,
Byzantine Studies,
Dumbarton Oaks,
Harvard,
James Curtin,
Michael McCormick,
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium,
Robert Nelson,
Russia,
Sidney Griffith,
Swimming pool,
parties
Few individuals were as influential to the field of Byzantine Studies during the past century as Alexander Kazhdan. Kazhdan, a Russian scholar, immigrated to ...
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The Social Lunch
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filed under:
Betsy Rosasco,
Byzantine,
Byzantine Studies,
Dumbarton Oaks,
Elizabeth Benson,
Garden and Landscape Studies,
Giles Constable,
Ioli Kalavrezou,
James Curtin,
Lunch,
Mildred Bliss,
Pre-Columbian Studies,
Stephen Zwirn,
garden,
landscape,
pre-columbian,
sherry,
tea
Dumbarton Oaks, unlike many other institutions of its kind, is home to three, very different programs of study. On their own, Byzantinists, Pre-Columbianists, ...
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The Swimming Pool
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filed under:
Alexander Kazhdan,
Byzantine,
DC,
Dumbarton Oaks,
Garden and Grounds,
Georgetown,
Harvard,
Helen Evans,
James Carder,
James Curtin,
John Thacher,
Margret Dawson,
Richard Diehl,
Swimming pool,
Washington
Out of Dumbarton Oaks’s many prominent garden features, the swimming pool remains one of the most popular. The pool was built in the early 1920s, replacing ...