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Surrealism in the Garden

Surrealism in the Garden

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

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Facing Perfection

Facing Perfection

Alexis Torrance studies the human ideal of Theodore the Stoudite

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Reopening of the Garden

Reopening of the Garden

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

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Capturing the Light

Capturing the Light

Shannon Steiner investigates the significance of Byzantine enameling

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Cherry Blossom Time

Cherry Blossom Time

James N. Carder (March 2018)

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Color Printing before the Digital Era

Color Printing before the Digital Era

James N. Carder (February 2018)

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A New View of Syria-Palestine

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

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

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

Time and the Garden

Denis Ribouillault studies the secrets of Renaissance sundials

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Repurposing the Apocalypse

Repurposing the Apocalypse

Christopher Bonura studies the political history of apocalyptic literature

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The Dispersed City

The Dispersed City

Gabriela Cervantes surveys the Sican capital in northern Peru

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Bliss and Mellon Awards

Bliss and Mellon Awards

Recipients of the Bliss symposium award and the Mellon colloquium awards react to recent Garden and Landscape Studies events

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The World Beyond the City

The World Beyond the City

2017 Pre-Columbian Studies symposium

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House Book at Casa Dorinda

House Book at Casa Dorinda

James N. Carder (December 2017)

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Naming Stones

Naming Stones

Dumbarton Oaks acquires 18th-century Japanese garden scroll

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Rebuilding Jerusalem

Rebuilding Jerusalem

Gideon Avni researches around destruction

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The Public and the Poplars

The Public and the Poplars

Romy Hecht unearths the history of landscape design in Santiago, Chile

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Autumn Leaves and Mums

Autumn Leaves and Mums

James N. Carder (November 2017)

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Much Ado about Moche

Much Ado about Moche

Dumbarton Oaks’ collection of fineline drawings moves online

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Laws of the New Empire

Laws of the New Empire

Paolo Angelini limns the legal history of medieval Slavs

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Difference and Home

Difference and Home

Jerry Moore investigates domestic architecture in ancient South America

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Reissue of Byzantium and the Arabs

Reissue of Byzantium and the Arabs

Irfan Shahîd’s history of the Arab’s interactions with Rome and Byzantium before the rise of Islam is available for download

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Unexpected Finds

Unexpected Finds

James N. Carder (October 2017)

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Dumbarton Oaks – First Postcards, 1945

Dumbarton Oaks – First Postcards, 1945

James N. Carder (September 2017)

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Excerpting the Past

Excerpting the Past

Laura Pfuntner investigates hermaphrodites in Byzantine and ancient texts

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The Benton Gospels

The Benton Gospels

Dumbarton Oaks Museum acquires rare Greek manuscript

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The Treatises of Melchior Guilandino

The Treatises of Melchior Guilandino

Dumbarton Oaks acquires sixteenth-century botanical texts

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Dumbarton Oaks at Kalamazoo

Dumbarton Oaks at Kalamazoo

Paper proposals for four sponsored sessions at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies due September 15

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Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities

Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities

The 2017 Garden and Landscape Studies symposium

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