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

This exhibition highlights two representations of warfare in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica and the Andes, Moche fineline drawings and Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, ...

Robert & Monnoyer: French Botanical Artists of the Seventeenth Century

Through materials from the Rare Book Collection, this exhibition provides illustrations from the leading proponents of two styles of French botanical ...

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

Drawing from the Rare Book Collection, this exhibition on the material culture of book binding examines methods of production, materials, and styles, offering ...

The Holy Apostles—Visualizing a Lost Monument

Designed to accompany the 2015 Byzantine Studies symposium on the Holy Apostles, this exhibition celebrates the collaborative work intended to reconstruct the ...

Market Gardens (Bostans) in Istanbul

The photographs in this exhibition provide exceptional information on the market gardens of Istanbul from the 1930s and 1940s, as well as broader chronological ...

Standing on Ceremony: Processions, Pathways, and Plazas

Drawing on materials from the Library and the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, this exhibition was created to accompany the Pre-Columbian Studies 2014 ...

A Truthful Record: The Byzantine Institute Films

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

The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century

This exhibition of materials from the Rare Book Collection was designed to accompany the 2013 symposium, “The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century,” ...

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 ...