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The Byzantine Emperors on Coins

One hundred twenty seven Byzantine coins, one for each Byzantine emperor, plus the few usurpers who struck coins are presented in this online exhibition. All ...

Bookbindings: “Of Making Many Books There Is No End”

This exhibit examines some methods of binding books and some of the broader significance of particular materials and styles.

Maria Sibylla Merian

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

Ces pièces immortelles: Early Numismatic Books in the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library

This exhibition explores the foundations of numismatic study of Roman and Byzantine coins from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through numismatic ...

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.

Garden Perspectives

An online exhibit to accompany an installation of archival and contemporary photographs of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens in the Catalogue House, on view beginning ...

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

Before Byzantium: The Early Activities of Thomas Whittemore (1871–1931)

This online exhibit presents Thomas Whittemore’s personal and professional activities from 1871 to 1931.