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Beatrix Farrand S Plant Book For Dumbarton Oaks
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Author : Diane K. McGuire
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 1980
Beatrix Farrand S Plant Book For Dumbarton Oaks written by Diane K. McGuire and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Architecture categories.
The Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks was prepared as a resource for those charged with maintenance of the gardens following their acquisition by Harvard University in 1941. Beatrix Farrand here explains the reasoning behind her plan for each of the gardens and stipulates how each should be cared for in order that its basic character remain intact. Her resourceful suggestions for alternative plantings, her rigorous strictures concerning pruning and replacement, her exposition of the overall concept that underlies each detail, and the plant lists that accompany her discussion of each garden make this a volume of interest to every student, practitioner, and lover of landscape design.
Dumbarton Oaks
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Author : Susan Tamulevich
language : en
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Release Date : 2001-01-01
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Author : Dumbarton Oaks
language : en
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Release Date : 1968
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Author : Dumbarton Oaks
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Release Date : 2008
Dumbarton Oaks written by Dumbarton Oaks and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
Dumbarton Oaks houses the extraordinary art collection begun by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. In this book the museum publishes the specialist collections in Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art, along with examples from the Blisses' superb European collection, for the first time. When Robert Bliss recalled handling a jade Olmec figurine in 1913, he said, "That day, the collector's microbe took root in--it must be confessed--very fertile soil." The Blisses' passion for art bore fruit in a remarkably diverse collection: Flemish tapestries, Renaissance furniture, and paintings by the likes of El Greco, Renoir, and Degas. The celebrated Byzantine collection includes floor mosaics from late antique Antioch, sumptuous jewelry, carved ivory reliefs, liturgical silver, and a comprehensive coin and seals collection. The Pre-Columbian collection showcases fine jade carvings, gold jewelry, monumental sculpture, ritual weaponry, colorful ceramics, and intricately woven textiles. The publication of this new guidebook coincides with the complete refurbishment of Dumbarton Oaks and the creative reinstallation of the galleries. The curators offer highlights of the collection, accompanied by a lucid and thought-provoking text. Dumbarton Oaks--The Collections is intended as a valuable resource and a pleasure to read for scholars and nonspecialists alike.
Olmec Art At Dumbarton Oaks
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Author : Karl A. Taube
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 2004
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Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks presents the Olmec portion of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. It illustrates all thirty-nine Olmec art objects in color plates and includes many complementary and comparative black-and-white illustrations and drawings. The body of Pre-Columbian art that Robert Bliss carefully assembled over a half-century between 1912 and 1963, amplified only slightly since his death, is a remarkably significant collection. In addition to their aesthetic quality and artistic significance, the objects hold much information regarding the social worlds and religious and symbolic views of the people who made and used them before the arrival of Europeans in the New World. This volume is the second in a series of catalogues that will treat objects in the Bliss Pre-Columbian Collection. The majority of the Olmec objects in the collection are made of jade, the most precious material for the peoples of ancient Mesoamerica from early times through the sixteenth century. Various items such as masks, statuettes, jewelry, and replicas of weapons and tools were used for ceremonial purposes and served as offerings. Karl Taube brings his expertise on the lifeways and beliefs of ancient Mesoamerican peoples to his study of the Olmec objects in teh Bliss collection. His understanding of jade covers a broad range of knowledge from chemical compositions to geological sources to craft technology to the symbolic power of the green stone. Throughout the book the author emphasizes the role of jade as a powerful symbol of water, fertility, and particularly, of the maize plant which was the fundamental source of life and sustenance for the Olmec. The shiny green of the stone was analogous to the green growth of maize. This fundamental concept was elaborated in specific religious beliefs, many of which were continued and elaborated by later Mesoamerican peoples, such as the Maya. Karl Taube employs his substantial knowledge of Pre-Columbian cultures to explore and explicate Olmec symbolism in this catalogue.
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Author : Walter Muir Whitehill
language : en
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Release Date : 1966
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Catalogue Of The Sculpture In The Dumbarton Oaks Collection From The Ptolemaic Period To The Renaissance
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Author : Dumbarton Oaks
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 1995
Catalogue Of The Sculpture In The Dumbarton Oaks Collection From The Ptolemaic Period To The Renaissance written by Dumbarton Oaks and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Art categories.
These sculptures reflect the Blisses' wide-ranging tastes and extraordinary connoisseurship. About a quarter are Greco-Roman; nearly two-thirds of the rest are Late Antique, mostly limestone carvings from Early Byzantine Egypt. Sculpture from the Middle Byzantine period is very rare, making the four pieces in this collection especially significant.
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Author : Robert C. Hilderbrand
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2001-02-01
Dumbarton Oaks written by Robert C. Hilderbrand and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-01 with Political Science categories.
Hilderbrand explains why, with the Second World War moving toward an Allied victory in the summer of 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China began to give greater priority to protecting their own sovereignty than to preventing
Cultural Landscape Report Dumbarton Oaks Park Rock Creek Park
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Release Date : 2000
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