The Oaks News

Dumbarton Oaks Wartime Poster, 1945

James N. Carder (August 2018)

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The New Roses

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Mythologizing the Church

Stephanos Efthymiadis examines the histories of Hagia Sophia

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A Displaced Unity

Michael Lee studies the administration of landscape architecture in 19th-century Germany

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2017–2018 Bliss and Mellon Awards

Recipients of the Bliss and Mellon symposium awards react to the 2018 Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium

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New Acquisitions: Travel Posters

James N. Carder (July 2018)

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The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library at Kalamazoo

Panel sponsored by Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library and Platinum Latin on Medieval Latin Lives of Muhammad

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Coins and Seals at Kalamazoo

Seven speakers explore Byzantine social, administrative, and economic history at the International Congress on Medieval Studies

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The Garden at Balentine’s

Nicholas Serrano studies postwar landscape architecture in the American South

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The Unrealizable World

Kelly Presutti studies landscape and representation in nineteenth-century France

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The United Nations Club at Dumbarton Oaks

James N. Carder (June 2018)

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Lives in the Landscape

Kaja Tally-Schumacher rediscovers Roman gardens

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Spectacles of Death

Luis Muro Ynoñán studies Moche funerary rituals at Huaca La Capilla

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Losing Sight

Jake Ransohoff studies political mutilation in the Byzantine Empire

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New Ephemera Exhibition: Italian Villa Gardens in America, 1900–1940

James N. Carder (May 2018)

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2018–2019 Fellows and Project Grant Recipients

Dumbarton Oaks announces support for 53 scholars in the upcoming academic year

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Dumbarton Oaks Announces 2018 Summer Interns

Ten Harvard students will undertake an array of projects

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Launch of books.doaks.org

Paperback editions of classic Dumbarton Oaks titles

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The Princes’ Coins

Alexandra Vukovich studies Byzantine imitation coinage in early Rus

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Panel Painting 101

James N. Carder (April 2018)

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Surrealism in the Garden

Thalia Allington-Wood studies the postwar reception of the Sacro Bosco

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Facing Perfection

Alexis Torrance studies the human ideal of Theodore the Stoudite

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Reopening of the Garden

The Dumbarton Oaks Garden reopens to the public on March 15, 2018

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Capturing the Light

Shannon Steiner investigates the significance of Byzantine enameling

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Cherry Blossom Time

James N. Carder (March 2018)

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Color Printing before the Digital Era

James N. Carder (February 2018)

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A New View of Syria-Palestine

Alan Walmsley brings a lost century back into focus

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Mildred Barnes ca. 1905 – Photographed at her Home in Sharon, Connecticut

James N. Carder (January 2018)

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Life in Classic Maya Royal Courts

Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire studies classic Maya royal spaces in La Corona, Guatemala

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Time and the Garden

Denis Ribouillault studies the secrets of Renaissance sundials

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