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The Dumbarton Oaks Gardens
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filed under:
Beatrix Farrand,
Elizabeth Benson,
Gail Griffin,
Garden and Grounds,
Garden and Landscape Studies,
James Carder,
Joaquim Wolschke-Bulmahn,
John Beardsley,
John Dixon Hunt,
Josh Wilson,
Lovers' Lane Pool,
Margret Dawson,
Matthew O'Donnell,
Michel Conan,
Mildred Bliss,
Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle,
Susan Toby Evans,
William Howard Adams,
garden,
landscape
Maybe it was because it was dusk that I found myself feeling lost, even though I wasn’t lost at all. Gray powdery light silvered, softly, everything it ...
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Come on In: The Dumbarton Oaks Symposium
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filed under:
Byzantine Studies,
Caroline Backlund,
Dumbarton Oaks Papers,
Elizabeth Sgalitzer Ettinghausen,
Garden and Landscape Studies,
Glen Bowersock,
Inge Gaberman,
Josh Wilson,
Mildred Bliss,
Oleg Grabar,
Pre-Columbian Studies,
Richard Diehl,
Robin Cormack,
William Howard Adams,
symposia
If the scholars here at Dumbarton Oaks are the lifeblood of the institute as we know it—the necessities, the aerators of resources, the vital signs—then the ...
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Ms. Joan Southcote-Aston
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filed under:
Blissania,
Caroline Backlund,
Ernst Kitzinger,
Friends of Music,
Gary Vikan,
Giles Constable,
Herbert Kessler,
House Collection,
Irene Vaslef,
J. P. Morgan,
Jelisaveta "Seka" Allen,
Joan Southcote-Aston,
John Thacher,
Josh Wilson,
Mildred Bliss,
Princeton Index,
William Howard Adams,
friends of music
Were you to read through all of the transcribed interviews in the Dumbarton Oaks Oral History Project, there is one person in particular who could not fail to ...
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Fletcher’s Castoria and Dumbarton Oaks: An Historical Excavation
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filed under:
Blissania,
Demas Barnes,
Doris Smith,
Fletcher's Castoria,
Georgetown,
Henry Maguire,
Ihor Sevcenko,
Jan Ziolkowski,
Josh Wilson,
Life Magazine,
Mildred Bliss,
William Tyler
Recently, at the Georgetown Flea Market, the father-in-law of Director Jan Ziolkowski purchased a new artifact of relevance for the Dumbarton Oaks Archives, ...
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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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Don’t Feed the Wildlife: Dumbarton Oaks and its Neighbors
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filed under:
Edward Keenan,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Georgetown,
Giles Constable,
James Carder,
Joe Mills,
John Warner,
Josh Wilson,
La Quercia,
Lois Fern,
Margret Dawson,
Mildred Bliss,
Oleg Grabar,
Richard Diehl,
Silvio Luciani,
Susan Toby Evans,
Tony Pereira,
Uncategorized
Though Dumbarton Oaks may feel “otherworldly”, as Margaret Dawson, an associate of Mildred Bliss, has it—what with its self-sufficiently immured Arcadian ...
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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, ...