Word: dumbarton
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...Essentially, he was one of the last generation of great German art historian emigrés,” said Alice Mary Talbot, the director of Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks—a Harvard research library in Washington, D.C. “It was as Walter Cook, director of the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, once remarked: ‘Hitler shook the tree, and I gathered up the fruit as it fell...
...Byzantine Women and Their World”—which reconstructs the daily world of Byzantine women through a variety of everyday and ritual objects—was curated by Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art Ioli Kalavrezou...
...exhibition also includes 16 pieces from the Harvard-owned Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington. Dumbarton Oaks’ premier collections in Byzantine and Pre-Columbian eras were a gift to Harvard from Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss...
According to Dumbarton Professor of Byzantine History Angeliki E. Laiou, the enrollment had been as high as 150 students in previous years, although it only attracted 21 students this year...
...which is not always the case with dynastic successions. She still asked the first question at editorial lunches. But she kept out of her son's hair by spending six solid years writing her book. If there was any interference, it took place during their weekly Sunday walks around Dumbarton Oaks. By then, an artificial hip was slowing her. She never complained about getting old. At parties she would plant herself on a chair and let the room come to her. She kept in touch by going to the movies, even the bad ones, and she'd always...