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Exuberant Visions of the German Baroque

Through selections from the Rare Book Collection, this exhibition conveys the varied and dynamic character of the German baroque, which was marked by ...

Dutch Villas and Gardens of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

This selection of images from the Rare Book Collection gives us a glimpse into the efflorescence of garden and villa culture seen in seventeenth-century ...

Eighteenth-Century Vedute of Vienna

Books of printed vedute in the Rare Book Collection give a privileged view of the Habsburg imperial city as it developed over the course of the eighteenth ...

Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection

Nicholas V. Artamonoff left behind a collection of at least 1033 photographs, dating from 1930 to 1947, providing a glimpse into the diverse urban environment ...

Coinage of the Byzantine Empire

March 20, 1999–January 2, 2000 | This exhibit offers insights into the numismatic holdings at Dumbarton Oaks that, with the exception of some spectacular late ...

Ceremonies of Death in Byzantium

April 30, 1999–May 2, 1999 | This exhibition focuses on images of death—including those of Christ, the Virgin, holy men, clergy, and laymen—which were ...

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 ...

Past and Present: Views of Maya Monuments

This interactive exhibition matches ten lithographed plates of Maya monuments from Frederick Catherwood’s 1844 “Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, ...

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, ...