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Donate to Harvard University in 1940 by Robert and Mildred Bliss, the estate includes three libraries containing over 130,000 volumes, including a library of rare landscape architectural source books, a research center, as well as fine collections of Byzantine and Pre-Columbian...
About 30 international scholars study and reside at Dumbarton Oaks each year, where they concentrate in one of three fields: Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian culture or Landscape Architecture. Students completing doctoral or post-doctoral research receive about $9000 for their work...
...structure's highlights is an eight-room marble and teak wood paneled wing designed by the world reknowned architect Philip Johnson. Pre-Columbian jade, pottery and gold objects in the Bliss' collection are displayed there and open to public viewing. A vast assemblage of Byzantine coins, sculptures and ivories are showcased in another part of the house...
...making too much of Salammbo's gyrations, Dijkstra wants us to know that a painting of the priestess by Charles Allen Winter was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1898 and a sculpted version by Jean-Antoine-Marie Idrac won a place of honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It was, in other words, a scene that appealed all too strongly to the roving Victorian...
...long, low winery is somewhat reminiscent, in fact, of the Japanese Arata Isozaki's work. Isozaki's first major commission in the U.S., the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles, evokes a dreamy pre-Columbian (or extraterrestrial) temple. The exterior is rich and singular: roughly cut red sandstone blocks, green aluminum panels, a barrel vault floating above the ; sidewalk. Inside, only the library, with its extraordinary white onyx window, is architecturally aggressive. The seven scrupulously conceived galleries are restrained, plain, deferential...