DUMBARTON OAKS
ANNUAL REPORT
2003–2004 Contents
Trustees for Harvard University
Byzantine Studies
3 Garden & Landscape Studies
4 Pre-Columbian Studies
6 archives
6 collections management
6 House Collection
6 Research Library
7 Gardens and Grounds
8 Publications
8 Friends of Music
8 Senior Fellows 2003–2004
9 Fellows and Support of Outside Projects
0 Dumbarton Oaks Staff as of June 30, 2004 Trustees for Harvard University in a Changing World?” 2003–2004 Françoise Dunand, Emerita, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, “Between Tradition and Innovation: Lawrence H. Summers, President Egyptian Funerary Practices in Late Antiquity” D. Ronald Daniel, Treasurer Terry Wilfong, University of Michigan, “Gender and Hanna Holborn Gray Society in Byzantine Egypt” Conrad K. Harper James R. Houghton Session 4: Culture Robert D. Reischauer Alan Cameron, Columbia University, “Classicizing Robert E. Rubin Poetry in Christian Egypt” Peter Grossmann, Deutsches Archäologisches Edward L. Keenan, Director Institut–Kairo, “Early Christian Architecture in Egypt and its Relationship to Architecture in the Administrative Committee Byzantine World” William C. Kirby, Chair Thelma Thomas, University of Michigan, “Textiles Cheryl Hoffman in Byzantine Egypt” Edward L. Keenan Raffaella Cribiore, Columbia University, “Higher Leah R. McIntosh Education in Late Antique Egypt” Jan Ziolkowski Sunday, 2 May, Session 5: Monasticism HONORARY ASSOCIATES OF DUMBARTON OAKS Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, Wittenberg University, William R. Tyler, Director, 969–977 “Divine Architects: Designing the Monastic Giles Constable, Director, 977–984 Dwelling Place” Robert W. Thomson, Director, 984–989 James Goehring, Mary Washington College, Philip Grierson, Advisor for Byzantine Numismatics, “Monasticism in Byzantine Egypt: Continuity with 953–998 and Memory of the Past” Angeliki Laiou, Director, 989–998 Elizabeth Bolman, Temple University, “Depicting the Kingdom of Heaven: Paintings and Monastic Byzantine Studies Practice in Late Antique Egypt” Annual Symposium Roger Bagnall, closing remarks Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450–700 April 30–May 2, 2004 Archival film of St. Anthony’s monastery shown each Symposiarch: Roger Bagnall (Columbia University) day courtesy of the Byzantine Photograph and Fieldwork Archives Friday, 30 April, Session : Places Edward Keenan and Alice-Mary Talbot, Colloquium welcoming remarks The Occult Sciences in Byzantium Roger Bagnall, Columbia University, introduction November 7–8, 2003 Peter van Minnen, University of Cincinnati, Organizers: Paul Magdalino (University of “Cities in Later Roman Egypt” St. Andrews) and Maria Mavroudi (University James Keenan, Loyola University, Chicago, of California at Berkeley) “Byzantine Egyptian Villages” Paul Magdalino, introduction William Adler, North Carolina State University, Session 2: Institutions Raleigh, “The Origins of Occult Science in Bernhard Palme, University of Vienna, “Imperial Byzantine Chronicles” Presence: Government and Army” Maria Mavroudi, University of California at Berkeley, Joëlle Beaucamp, Centre Paul Albert Février, “The Social Position of the Apocryphal Scientist” Université de Provence, “Droit Impérial” Katerina Ierodiakonou, Institute for Advanced Study– Ewa Wipszycka, University of Warsaw, “The Bishops Princeton/St. Hugh’s College–Oxford, “The of Byzantine Egypt” Byzantine Appropriation of the Notion of Todd Hickey, University of California at Berkeley, Sympatheia” “The Economy of Byzantine Egypt” Dimitri Gutas, Yale University, “Epea pteróenta: Platonism and Aristotelianism between Byzantium Saturday, May, Session 3: Social Practices and Islam (9th cent.)” Arietta Papaconstantinou, Université Paris I, Michèle Mertens, University of Liège, “Graeco- “The Cult of Saints: A Haven of Continuity Egyptian Alchemy in Byzantium”
Maria Papathanassiou, University of Athens, January 4: Ioli Kalavrezou, Senior Research “Stephanos of Alexandria as Alchemist and Associate and Dumbarton Oaks Professor, Astrologer” Harvard University, “Byzantine Ivories Revisited” Anne Tihon, Université Catholique, Louvain, February 5: James Russell, University of British “Astronomy and Astrology in Byzantium” Columbia, “Early Monasteries in Ireland and David Pingree, Brown University, “The Byzantine Scotland” Translations of Masha’allah’s Works on February 20: Clive Foss, Georgetown University, Interrogational Astrology” “Roman Archaeological Sites in Libya” Joshua Holo, Graduate Theological Union–Berkeley, March : Rosamond Mack, Independent Scholar, “Byzantine Jewry and the Line between Astrology “Models for a Competitive Industry and a and Astronomy” Vivid Imagery: Italian Responses to Islamic Paul Magdalino, University of St. Andrews, “Occult and Asian Textiles, 285–520” Science and Imperial Power in Byzantine History March 8: Barbara Schellewald, University of Bonn, and Historiography (9th–2th cent.)” “Adolph Goldschmidt and Early Studies on Charles Burnett, University of California at Berkeley/ Byzantine Ivories” The Warburg Institute–London, “The Greek March 0: Harun Özdaş, Dokuz Eylül University, Element in Translations from Arabic into Latin, Izmir, “The Classification of Byzantine Ships Especially in Regard to Astrology and Magic” and Rowboats” Maria Mavroudi, University of California at Berkeley, March 25: Thomas Kelly, Harvard University, and George Saliba, Columbia University, “Words, Music, and Pictures in the South Italian concluding remarks Exultet Scrolls” April 7: Johannes Pahlitzsch, Institute for Advanced Public Lectures Study, Princeton, “Pious Foundations in the October 7 Eastern Mediterranean: a Comparison of the Legal Irfan Shahid, (Georgetown University/Dumbarton Construction and the Social Function of Byzantine Oaks) and Islamic Endowments” “The Concept of the Holy Land from the Muslim April 4: Fr. Justin, Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Perspective: Byzantium and the Arabs before the “The Library at St. Catherine’s Monastery: Crusades” Preserving the Heritage” April 20: John Romano, Harvard University, “How February 8 Manifold are Your Works, O Lord: The Problem of James O’Donnell (Georgetown University) Diversity in the Study of Early Medieval Liturgy” “The Impact of Late Antiquity” April 27: Alice-Mary Talbot, discussion of the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit, “Byzantium: Seminars & Informal Talks Faith and Power” October 5: Denis Feissel, Directeur de recherches at April 28: Elizabeth Bolman, Temple University, the CNRS and Directeur d’études at l’Ecole “Late Antique Aesthetics, Chromophobia, and the pratique des hautes études, IVe section, Paris, “The Red Monastery, Sohag, Egypt” Philadelphion of Constantinople and its epigrams” May 4: Maria Evangelatou, Dumbarton Oaks Fellow, October 20: Cécile Morrisson, Advisor for Byzantine “Virtuous Soul, Healthy Body: The Holistic Numismatics, “Seminar on Coins in the Concept of Health in Byzantine Representations Dumbarton Oaks Collection” of Christ’s Healing Miracles” November 5: Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Rethinking Byzantine Byzantine Greek Reading Group Turkey” Weekly seminar on vita B of Athanasios of Athos November 6: Ioli Kalavrezou, Senior Research Associate and Dumbarton Oaks Professor, Harvard The Byzantine Collection University, “The Byzantine Oikoumene and its Acquisitions Visual Manifestations” Gold opus interrasile pendant medallion, fourth November 3: Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis, century Princeton University, “Byzantine Lebenswelt and Rectangular gold pendant with jewels and pearls, Rabbinical Hermeneutics: the Greek Jews in the sixth to seventh century Cairo Genizah” Pair of gold earrings, sixth to seventh century December : Fabio Barry, National Gallery of Art, Light silver miliarense of Anastasius I (49–58), “Walking on Water: Cosmic Church Floors in Thessalonike Byzantium and Christendom” Gold tremissis of Heraclius (60–64), Ravenna
2 Gold solidus of Heraclius (60–64), Avar imitation Michel Conan, Dumbarton Oaks, introduction Bronze Arab-Byzantine follis after 635, Skythopolis Sydney H. Aufrère, Université Paul Valéry, Silver ceremonial hexagram of Theodosius III Montpellier III, “The Vegetable Universe of Ancient (75–77), Constantinople Egypt, its Symbiosis and Religious Reinterpretation” Gold nomisma histamenon of John I Tzimiskes Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto, “Visionary (969–976), Kievan imitation Rose: Metaphorical Application of Horticultural Two silver miliaresia of Basil II (976–025), Practice in Persian Culture” Tmutarakan imitations Elliot Wolfson, New York University, “The Rose in Silver tetarteron of Isaac Comnenus of Cyprus Jewish Culture in Medieval Spain” (85–9), main mint Nurhan Atasoy, Istanbul University, “Links Between Electrum trachy of Andronicus II (282–328), the Ottoman and the Western Worlds on Thessalonike Floriculture and Gardening” Four gold hyperpyra of Andronicus II and Michael IX Susan Toby Evans, Pennsylvania State University, (294–320), Constantinople “Precious Beauty: The Aesthetic and Economic Five gold hyperpyra of Andronicus II and Andronicus Value of Aztec Gardens” III (37–328), Constantinople Yizhar Hirschfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Lead seal of Peter I of Bulgaria, Dynasty of Krum “Perfume and Power from the Ancient near East (927–970), Sofia to Late Antiquities” Mohammed El Faïz, Cedimes University, Morocco, Gifts to the Collection “Horticultural Changes and Political Upheavals Print from an engraved copper plate for Lettre XXX in Middle-Age Andalusia” of Mélanges de numismatique et d’histoire, Wybe Kuitert, Kyoto University of Art and Design, nineteenth century, gift of Mme. Cécile Morrisson, “Political Change and Cultural Values of Plants: Ville d’Avray, France Origins of Cherry Hybridization in Medieval Japan” Lead seal of priests-ekdikoi in Byzantine style, gift of Georges Métailié, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Martha, Zoe, and Andrew Frazer in honor of their “Grafting as an Agricultural and Cultural Practice mother, Margaret Frazer in Ancient China” Bronze belt buckle, gift of Dr. Klaus Demus, Vienna Saúl Alcántara Onofre, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, “The Chinampas Before and after Loans to the Collection the Encounter with Europe” Six bronze Byzantine stamps, Mrs. Susanne Bennet, Mauro Ambrosoli, Università degli Studi di Udine, Washington, D.C. “The Contribution of Italian Peasants and Gardeners to the Conservation and Propagation of Loans from the Collection Species Diversity: An Investigation for the XVI– Loan of twenty-four objects to the exhibition Restoring XVIII Centuries” Byzantium: The Rediscovery and Restoration of the Michel Conan, Dumbarton Oaks, “Reform Kariye Camii, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Utopianism and Horticulture at the End of the 8th Gallery, Columbia University, 4/3–6/2/2004 Century in France” Loan of four objects, thirty-one coins, and seven Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra University, New York, seals to the exhibition Byzantium: Faith and Power “Turning over a New Leaf: The Impact of Qat in (26–557), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yemeni Horticulture” 3/5-7/4/2004 Alain Touwaide, Smithsonian, “From Dêmêtêr to Iris: Long-term loan of one object to The Metropolitan Perception and Ordering of Vegetal World in Museum of Art, 2004 through 2007 Antiquity” Therese O’Malley, National Gallery of Art, Other Projects Washington, “Horticulture in Philadelphia during Conservation and preparation for display of three the American Revolution” Antioch mosaics Clem Hamilton, Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Continuing conservation and off-site storage of “‘Urban Eco-for-ticulture’ in Modern Society” Collection in preparation for Main House Peter del Tredici, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard renovation University, “Horticulture in a Changing World” Dan Hinckley, Heronswood Nursery, “New Plants Garden & Landscape Studies for Research and Horticulture: The Problem of Annual Symposium Invasive Species” Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes
3 W. John Kress, Smithsonian, “Plant Exploration Jeffrey Wilkerson, Institute for Cultural Ecology of in the 2st Century: Intellectual Property Rights, the Tropics, “Local Development and Interregional Globalization, and Technological Tools” Interaction in the Nautla/Bobos Corridor” David Mabberley, University of Leiden and Royal Christopher Pool, University of Kentucky, Botanic Gardens, Sydney, “Summary and “Architectural Plans, Factionalism, and the Conclusions: The Way Ahead” Protoclassic-Classic Transition at Tres Zapotes” Javier Urcid, Brandeis University, and Thomas Tertulias Killion, Wayne State University, “Social Landscapes September 25: Francisco Paez de la Cadena, and Political Dynamics in the Southern Gulf Coast Universidad de la Rioja, Spain Lowlands (500–000 CE)” “Historic Gardens in Spain: Horticultural and Annick Daneels, Universidad Nacional Autónoma Cultural Changes” de México, “Ballcourts and Politics in the October 29: Ono Kenkichi, Nara National Cultural Lower Cotaxtla Valley: A Model to Understand Properties Research Institute, Japan Classic Central Veracruz” “Gardens of the East Asian Countries in the Seventh Arturo Pascual, Universidad Nacional Autónoma and Eighth Centuries” de México, “La Elite del Clásico Temprano November 4: Amina-Aïcha Malek, CNRS Paris en la Región de El Tajín” Cherra Wyllie, University of Hartford, “Children Public Lectures of the Cultura Madre: Classic Period Art, September 7: Richard Strassberg, UCLA, Writing, and Religion in and around the Former “Representing the Garden in Traditional Chinese Olmec Heartland” Fiction and Drama through Gesture and Images” John Justeson, University of Albany, and Terrence November 20: Peter Jacobs, University of Montreal, Kaufman, University of Pittsburgh “The Epi- “Folklore and Forest Fragments” Olmec Cultural Tradition: Textual, Linguistic, March : Xiaoshan Yang, University of Notre Dame, and Iconographic Evidence” “The Ugly, the Grotesque, and the Useless: Rex Koontz, University of Houston, “Iconographic Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Interaction between El Tajín and Aesthetics of Rocks” Southern Veracruz” Richard Diehl, University of Alabama, concluding Colloquia remarks October 23–26: Cohosted with Pre-Columbian Studies, Gardens and the Construction of Cultures Roundtable in the Americas October 22, 2003 December 4–7: Cosponsored with Accademia del New Imaging Tools for Archaeological Explorations Disegno, in Florence, Italy, History of Attitudes and Conservation Science: Airborne Synthetic Towards the Past in Garden Conservation Aperture Radar (AirSAR) Applications in Central May 20–24: Istanbul, Turkey, Middle East Garden America Traditions Organized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pre-Columbian Studies (JPL)/California Institute of Technology and Annual Symposium Dumbarton Oaks October –2, 2003 Jeffrey Quilter, Dumbarton Oaks, opening remarks Classic Veracruz: Cultural Currents in the Ancient Craig Dobson, NASA HQ, purpose and agenda Gulf Lowlands: Richard A. Diehl, University Ronald Blom, JPL, “Remote Sensing Background – of Alabama, Christopher A. Pool, University of AirSAR” Kentucky, and Philip J. Arnold, III, Loyola Sassan Saatchi, JPL, “Observational Capabilities – University Chicago, chairs Vegetation Structure” Richard Diehl, University of Alabama, “Classic Ronald Blom, JPL, “Observational Capabilities – Veracruz Forty Years after the Handbook of Middle Surface and Sub-surface Features” American Indians: a Personal Perspective and Douglas Comer, Cultural Site Research and Overview” Management, “Science Needs” Philip Arnold, Loyola Chicago & Robert Santley, Craig Dobson, “Logistics and Budgetary Issues” University of New Mexico, “Classic Period Cultural Douglas Comer, Cultural Site Research and Currents in the Tuxtla Mountains” Management, “Goals, Issues, and Potential Barbara Stark, Arizona State University, “Polity and Archaeological Sites” Economy in the Western Lower Papaloapan Basin”
4 Woody Turner, NASA HQ, “Goals, Issues, and Alan Durston, University of Chicago, “The Colonial Potential Conservation Biology Sites” Peruvian Church as a Space of Interaction Between Sassan Saatchi, JPL, “Potential Synergies Western and Andean Semiotic Practices” (Conservation Biology and Archaeology)” Steven Wernke, University of North Carolina, “The Jeffrey Quilter, Dumbarton Oaks, “Strategy to Stage and the Actors: Communities and Clerics Achieve Goals” in the Early Doctrinas of the Colca Valley, Peru” Craig Dobson, NASA HQ, summary and action items Tertulias Working Groups November 5, 2003 October 24–26, 2003 Bryan Just, Tulane University, “From Nose Jobs to Gardens and the Construction of Culture in the Annihilation: Maya Post-Production Sculptural Americas Modification” Joint Pre-Columbian Studies and Garden and November 0, 2003 Landscape Studies Jeffrey Quilter, Dumbarton Oaks, “Art and Moche Jeffrey Quilter, Dumbarton Oaks Martial Arts” Michel Conan, Dumbarton Oaks March 7, 2004 Ono Kenkichi, Nara National Cultural Properties Christiane Clados, University of Wisconsin, Research Institute “Reconstructing the Pre-Columbian World” Catherine Benoît, “From Place to Space: The March 8, 2004 Carribean Gardens as Social Products” Jeffrey Quilter and Jeffrey Frost, “AirSAR Report: Saúl Alcántara Onofre, “Las Chinampas del Valle Flights Over Central America” de Mexico” June 24, 2004 Sonia Berjman, “Persistence, Fractures, and Raving Jeffrey Quilter, “Report on Site Excavations at with the Appropriation of Prestigious Patterns el Brujo Complex, Peru, 2004” During the Construction of Buenos Aires Public Green Spaces” Public Lectures Rachel Iannacone, “The Small Parks in New York December 0, 2003 City and the Civilizing Process of Immigrants at Frederick Lange, “The Globalization of Central the Turn of the 9th and 20th Centuries” America, 4,000 Years Ago and More” Daniel Schavelzon, “Gardening and Democracy in April 2, 2004 a Growing City” Vincas P. Steponaitis, “History and Art at Hugo Segawa, “Alameda and Passeios: Public Moundville: a Pre-Columbian Ceremonial Promenades in Colonial America” Center in Alabama”
April 20, 2004 The Pre-Columbian Collection “The Early Church and European-Native Encounters Exhibitions in the New World: Texts, Archaeology, Reinstallation of several galleries in the Johnson Architecture, and Art” Wing following a complete deinstallation during Jeffrey Quilter, Dumbarton Oaks construction activity Joanne Pillsbury, Dumbarton Oaks/University of Maryland Acquisitions Elizabeth Benson, Institute of Andean Studies Donation of Pre-Columbian materials by Mr. Gerald Jaime Lara, Yale University, “The Patristic Period in Greenwald New Spain: The Spiritual Convergence of Mexico” Donation of Pre-Columbian materials by Mrs. David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural Dorothy Polakoff History, “‘Pagan Mission Architecture’ in the Spanish Borderlands” Loans from the Collection Prudence Rice, Southern Illinois University, “The Loan of one object to the exhibition Tapestries Archaeology of the Early Church in Southern and Silverwork from the Colonial Andes, Peru and the Maya Lowlands: Perspectives from New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Peripheries” 9/27/2004–/3/2005, and on long-term loan Gary Urton, Harvard University, “How Were Local to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5/4/2003– (Reducción) Churches Built and Maintained in late 2006 Colonial Peru?” Loan of one object to the exhibition Machu Picchu: Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto, “Sacred Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas, Los Angeles, The Circulations in the Early Colonial Andes” Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,
5 6/9–9/7/2003, and Pittsburgh, The Carnegie //2004, and London, The National Gallery, Museum of Natural History, 0/8/2003–/4/2004 2/8–5/24/2004, and on long-term loan to Loan of five objects to the exhibition Machu Picchu: Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas, Denver, The 5/24/2004–late 2006 Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2/3– Loan of Tilman Riemenschneider, Madonna and 5/9/2004, and Houston, The Houston Museum Child on the Crescent Moon [HC.S.937.06.(W)] of Natural Science, 6/2–9/6/2004 to the exhibition Tilman Riemenschneider – Werke Loan of seven objects to the exhibition Courtly Art of seiner Blütezeit, Würzburg, Mainfränkisches the Ancient Maya, San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum, 3/24–6/3/2004, and on long-term loan Museum of San Francisco, 0/5/2003–2/8/2004 to New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Loan of nine objects to the exhibition Courtly Art of Art, 6/3/2004–late 2006 the Ancient Maya, Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, 4/4–7/25/2004 Research Library Acquisitions and Holdings * Conservation Projects Restoration of Peruvian textiles; cleaning, repair, and Monographic acquisitions: remounting ,05 Byzantine Cleaning of Central American gold ,07 Landscape Arch. 622 Pre-Columbian Collections Management Projects 25 Interdisciplinary Preparation of collections for deinstallation and long- 2,733 term storage during renovation of the Main House at Dumbarton Oaks Serial subscriptions and standing orders: 587 Byzantine Archives 68 Landscape Arch. Increase in archival holdings to 46 linear feet 86 Pre-Columbian of conventional files, 6 linear feet of Holinger 5 Interdisciplinary boxed materials, and 7 linear feet of flat file 746 architectural drawings Acquisition of 00% Schematic Design Document Items withdrawn: set from Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates 495 Byzantine for Dumbarton Oaks Main House/Museum Wing 2 Landscape Arch. Renovation project 26 Pre-Columbian 523 Collections Management Increase in collections management database Holdings: (EmbARK) object records to 59,607 40,475 Byzantine Completion of scripting of bar coding system for 23,035 Landscape Arch. collections objects and locations and integration of 28,774 Pre-Columbian bar coding system with the collections management 53 Interdisciplinary database (EmbARK) 92,437 total, including serials Acquisition of barcode printer and software Acquisition of CREO scanner and software * Acquisitions totals include gifts and exchanges added to the collection. House Collection Loan of Edgar Degas, The Song Rehearsal [HC. Rare Book Collection P.98.02.(O)] and Edgar Degas, Study of Giulia Noteworthy acquisitions Bellelli [HC.D.937.2.(E)] to the exhibition Degas Arkoudios, Petros. Peri tou katharteriou pyros kata and the Italians in Paris, Ferrara, Palazzo dei Barlaam/Petrou tou Arkoudiou = De pvrgatorio Diamanti, 9/4–/6/2003, and Edinburgh, Royal igne adversvs Barlaam/Petri Arkvdii. Rome: Scottish Academy, 2/2/2003–2/29/2004, and Congregatio de Propaganda Fidei, 637. on long-term loan to Edinburgh, National Galleries This edition presents the treatise on purgatory that of Scotland, 3//2004–late 2006 is attributed to the controversial Byzantine Loan of El Greco, The Visitation [HC.P.936.8.(O)] to theologian Barlaam of Calabria, together with the exhibition El Greco, New York City, The responses to the treatise written by the Renaissance Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9/23/2003– scholar Petros Arkoudios. The Greek text is
6 accompanied by Latin translations on the facing Kreutz, Giovanni and Luigia Kreutz. Mosaici page. The department at the Vatican that prepared secondarii non compresi negli spaccati geometrici ma this edition was responsible for overseeing the che completano con essi tutto l’interno della Basilica education and activities of the Church’s di San Marco. Venice: s.n., 854. missionaries. Its editor, P. Ligarides, dedicated the Johann and Louise Kreutz began this collection work to Pope Urban VIII. of engravings in 854, dedicating the work to the deposed emperor Ferdinand I of Austria and Baier, J.J. Horti Medici Acad. Altorf. Historia curiose offering it to subscribers. They never completed conquista….accedit eiusdem commemoratio the project, but, in the latter part of the nineteenth celebriorum Germaniae Hortorum Botanico- century, Ferdinando Ongania reprinted some Medicorum. Altorf : I.G. Kohles, 727. Joh. Jacob of the engravings in his multivolume collection of Baier (677–735) was professor of medicine at engravings and photographs of the basilica. This the Altdorf university and president of the “Acad. particular volume consists of 8 engravings. Natur. Curios.” and director of the famous “hortus Some plates feature only individual figures, while medicus.” The botanical garden of Altdorf had others show the inscriptions, non-figural decoration, been previously described by Moritz Hoffmann in and architectural setting of the figured mosaics. 677 and in the present work by Baier numerous Also included are beautifully hand-colored references are made to the former publication. engravings of the marble and porphyry pavements. A history of the garden is presented along with an engraved folded map that illustrates the town Exhibitions of Altdorf at the rear and the university botanical A Selection of Hexandrian Plants by Priscilla Susan garden in the foreground. The garden was composed Bury of twelve parterres and an orangery, next to a From 83 to 834, Priscilla Susan Bury (c. mid- glasshouse. Gardeners are portrayed at work along 820s–late-860s) produced fifty-one plates of with visitors walking in the lanes through the amaryllis and lilies for a work entitled A Selection garden. The engraving resembles the one in of Hexandrian Plants, belonging to the natural orders Hoffmann’s work, however, more parterres have Amaryllidae and Lilliacae. The Dumbarton Oaks been created and a glasshouse added. Rare Book Collection holds twenty-five watercolor drawings of the fifty-one that were reproduced Cambry, Jacques. Rapport sur les Sepultures, presente in Bury’s publication. The exhibition centered on a l’Administration Centrale du Department de eleven of the watercolors that were created by la Seine... Paris: de l’Imprimerie de P. Didot l’aine, Priscilla Bury, and inscribed “For my son Edward An vii [799]. First edition. Cambry (749–807) James Bury, arranged June 848.” was a government administrator, scholar, and archeologist. “The cemetery designed as a The Arbor Terrace History and Design picturesque garden where all citizens could The exhibition focused on the history, evolution, commemorate their dead as they chose was and changing design of Dumbarton Oaks’s Arbor introduced at this time by a former administrator Terrace since the 930s. The possible impetus of the Department of the Seine, Jacques Cambry, behind several of the early designs for garden in collaboration with Jacques Molinos, Architect ornaments, some of which may have been inspired and Inspector of Civil Buildings for the same by literature, art history, and mythology, was department. On 4 Floreal, year VII (May 3, 799), examined. Additionally, the exhibition touched the Department approved the Molinos–Cambry upon how the design and several pieces of the project; and on 2 Frimaire, year VIII (November 23, extant garden ornaments developed out of the 799), it ordered the printing and distribution Italian garden tradition. of a sumptuous book complete with a learned and sentimental text on burials by Cambry and Byzantine Photograph and Fieldwork Archives beautiful engravings of Molinos’s design. Acquisitions Although the proposal was published under the This year, 75 photographs have been acquired and 567 aegis of the Department of the Seine, its authors color transparencies were donated to the collection. were entrepreneurs working with a company that hoped to build and manage the cemetery for Gardens and Grounds the city…” Cleaning and consolidation of the stone urns in the —Richard Etlin, The Architecture of Death. The Urn Terrace, the Camellia Circle and the Forsythia Transformation of the Cemetery in Eighteenth- Dell: Mason Cook, Westmill Preservation Century Paris, pp. 273–82.
7 Cleaning, masonry repair and consolidation of the Merula, Rognoni, Marini, Uccellini, Bovicelli, Pepper Pot near the swimming pool: Mason Cook, Fontana, Picchi, Monteverdi, Cazzati. Westmill Preservation Cleaning, stonework repair, repointing and SENIOR FELLOWS 2003–2004 consolidation of the swimming pool fountain: Byzantine Studies: Mason Cook, Westmill Preservation John Duffy* Cleaning and re-pointing of the brick wall caps on the 99– (chair 993–97) (chair 2003–) wall between the Star Garden and the North Vista: Ioli Kalavrezou* Mason Cook, Westmill Preservation 989–92, 992–95, 995–97, 997– Replacement and repair of the woodwork in the Arbor Johannes Koder Terrace East Gate: Mason Cook, Westmill 2002– Preservation Angeliki Laiou* Woodwork replacement and painting of the Trompe 989– (chair 989–9) L’Oeil: Mason Cook, Westmill Preservation Paul Magdalino Completion of restoration of the Bliss Tomb 200–2004 baldacchino, lead roof and roping, canopy plaster, Robert S. Nelson stainless steel frame: Ken Zastrow, The Copper 2003– Heron Forge Alice-Mary Talbot Removal of the Music Room white oak: Consulting 997– (ex officio)** arborists, Frido van Kesteren, Bartlett Tree Experts; David Pail, Potomac Lands; Scaffolding of Music Garden And Landscape Studies: Room, Millstone Corporation Stephen Bann Construction of new stone wall at the Acorn House: 2002– Buch Construction, Inc. Sonia Berjman 2002– Publications Michel Conan Byzantine Studies 989–92, 992–95 (chair 993–96) 997– (ex officio)** Dumbarton Oaks Papers 57 Erik de Jong 2002– Pre-Columbian Richard Etlin Jeffrey Quilter and John Hoopes, eds., Gold and 999–02; 2002– Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Peter Jacobs Colombia 998–0; 200–04 (chair 2002–04) Walter W. Taylor, Sandals from Coahuila Caves Stephen West 200–2004 Friends of Music Friends of Music 2003–2004 Season Pre-Columbian Studies: October 9 & 20 Warwick Bray Altenberg Trio Wien: Mozart, Haydn, Dvořák. 200–2004 November 6 & 7 Thomas Cummins* The American Chamber Players: Schumann, 999–02; 2002– Mozart, Schubert. Clark Erickson December 7 & 8 2002– Le Concert Spirituel, with Hervé Niquet, William Fash harpsichord and director: Leclair, Boismortier. 998–0; 200–04 (chair 200–04) January & 2 Jeffrey Quilter Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano: Beethoven, 995– (ex officio)** C. P. E. Bach, Mozart, Kraus. Louise Paradis February 8 & 9 2002– Trio Hantaï: Leclair, Marais, Rameau, J. S. Bach. Rebecca Stone-Miller March 7 & 8 2000–03; 2003– Carter Bray, cello and Christopher O’Riley, piano: * Senior Research Associate and Dumbarton Oaks Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff. Professor, Harvard University April 25 & 26 ** Directors of Studies are ex officio members of the La Fenice with Jean Tubéry, cornetto and director: Board of Senior Fellows during their respective Turini, A. Gabrieli, Cavalli, L. Rossi, Castello, terms.
8 Fellows and Support of Outside Projects Denis M. Searby, University of Stockholm (Summer Byzantine Studies 2003)SF Fellows “A Critical Edition and Translation of Demetrios Ralf Behrwald, Universität Bamberg (2003–04)F Kydones’ Apology for Thomas of Aquinas” “The City as Museum? Concepts of Urbs Roma in Alicia Simpson, King’s College London (Fall 2003– Late Antiquity” 04)JF Pietro Bortone, Milan, Italy (Summer 2003)SF “Studies on the Composition of Niketas Choniates’ “The History of Greek Prepositions” Historia” Catherine Cubitt, The University of York (Summer Gregory A. Smith, Harvard University (2003–04)JF 2003)SF “A Cultural History of the Soul in Late Antiquity” “The Monothelite Controversy of the Seventh Lioba Theis, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms- Century” Universität Bonn (2003–04)F Maria Evangelatou, Byzantine and Christian Museum “Light and Lighting in Early Christian and Athens (2003–04)F Byzantine Churches” “The Illustration of the Ninth-Century Byzantine Alicia Walker, Harvard University (Spring 2004)JF Marginal Psalters: Layers of Meaning and their “Insatiable Enjoyment: Islamic Elements in Middle Sources” Byzantine Secular Art and Aesthetics” Peter Galadza, Saint Paul University, Ottawa (2003–04)F Support of Outside Projects “Funeral Rites in the Byzantine Tradition, the Elizabeth Bolman, “Rescue Archaeology and Fourth to Sixteenth Centuries: The History of Photography at the White and Red Monasteries, Liturgical Units and their Theological Sohag, Egypt” (2003–04)+ Interpretation” Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, “Catalogue of Greek Antonia Giannouli, University of Cyprus (Summer Manuscripts in the Collections of the USA: Second 2003)SF Phase” (2003–04)+ “Byzantine Commentaries on Ecclesiastical Hymns” Christopher S. Lightfoot, “Amorium Project 2003” Oren Gutfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003-04)+ (Summer 2003)SF Vadim Serov, “Systematization of the Byzantine Coins “The Cardo and the Nea Church on the of Chersonese” (2003–04)+ Southwestern Hill of Jerusalem – A Stratigraphic and Architectural Analysis” Pre-Columbian Studies Vasileios Marinis, University of Illinois at Urbana- Fellows Champaign (2003–04)JF Lori Boornazian Diel, Texas Christian University “The Monasterytou Libo: Architecture, Sculpture, (Summer 2003)SF and Liturgical Planning in Middle and Late “Aztec Pictorial Histories as Colonial Discourse” Byzantine Constantinople” James Louis Fitzsimmons, University of New Mara Mason, Ca’Foscari University, Venice Hampshire (2003–04)F (Summer 2003)SF “Classic Maya Satellites: Restoring Provenience to “The Wall Mosaics of San Giusto in Trieste and their Looted Monuments of the Sierra de Lacandón, Relationships with Byzantine Art” Guatemala” John Monfasani, University at Albany (SUNY) Billie J.A. Follensbee, Southwest Missouri State (Spring 2004)F (Summer 2003)SF “The Plato–Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth “The Importance of Weaving among Formative Century” Period Gulf Coast Cultures” Margaret E. Mullett, Queen’s University, Belfast R. Jeffrey Frost, University of Wisconsin at Madison (Fall 2003–04)F (2003–04)JF “TheLife of Cyril Phileotes by Nicholas “High Status Cemeteries and Socio-Political Kataskepenos” Organization in Late Pre-Columbian Costa Rica” Fatih Onur, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey Bryan R. Just, Tulane University (2003–04)JF (Summer 2003)SF “The Social Discourse of Style in Ninth-Century “Military Reforms of Anastasios I, on the Basis of a Maya Sculpture” New Inscription from Perge” Sara A. Morasch, Bryn Mawr College (Summer Anthousa Papagiannaki, University of Oxford 2003)SF (Summer 2003)SF “Dominican Architecture in Colonial Oaxaca” “Byzantine Ivory and Bone Caskets with Secular Decoration, 9th to 2th Centuries”
9 Izumia Shimada, Southern Illinois University Support of Outside Projects (2003–04)F Leigh-Ann Bedal, “Archaeological Investigation of the “Sociopolitical History of the Pre-Hispanic North Petra Garden and Pool Complex (2003–04)+ Coast of Peru” Andrei V. Tabarev, Institute of Archaeology and F Fellow Ethnography, Novosibirsk, Russia (Summer 2003)SF JF Junior Fellow “Prehistory of Meso- and South America: Lecture SF Summer Fellow Courses and First Textbooks for Russian + Not in residence Universities” Dumbarton Oaks Staff as of June 30, 2004 Support of Outside Projects Byzantine Studies Warren Church, “Emergency Archaeology at Gran Alice-Mary Talbot, Director of Byzantine Studies Pajatén” (2003–04)+ Caitlin McGurk, Assistant to the Director of Arthur Demarest, “Uncovering Cancuen’s Royal Byzantine Studies Palace: The Political Role of Classic Maya Art” John Nesbitt, Research Associate for Byzantine (2003–04)+ Sigillography Marta Zlotnick, Curatorial Assistant, Byzantine Garden and Landscape Studies Collection Fellows Stephen Zwirn, Assistant Curator, Byzantine Catherine Benoît, Connecticut College (Summer Collection 2003)SF “African-American and Caribbean Gardens: The Garden And Landscape Studies Experience of Space and Nature in Slave and Post- Michel Conan, Director of Garden and Landscape Slave Societies” Studies and Curator B. Deniz Calis Kural, Middle East Technical Rosy Lum, Assistant to the Director of Garden and University, Ankara (2003–04)JF Landscape Studies “Reconstruction of the Journey to ‘Kagithane Xin Wu, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Design Commons’: Symbol of a Short-Lived Cultural Collection Renewal in Ottoman Istanbul (78–730)” Kathleen Wren Christian, Washington, DC (2003– Pre-Columbian Studies 04)F Jeffrey Quilter, Director of Pre-Columbian Studies “The Ethics of Decorous Pleasure and the Birth of and Curator, Pre-Columbian Collection the Roman Sculpture Garden, 475–530” Kristy Keyes, Assistant to the Director of Elizabeth Lebas, Middlesex University, London Pre-Columbian Studies (Spring 2004)F Juan Antonio Murro, Assistant Curator, Pre- “Reforming Beauty: Female Social and Political Columbian Collection Engagement in Public Gardens and Landscapes in Jennifer Younger, Curatorial Assistant, Pre- Early 20th Century London” Columbian Collection Kristine F. Miller, University of Minnesota (2003– 04)F Special Appointments “Designing the Public: Money, Access and Wilhelmina Jashemski, Special Adviser for Garden Expression in New York City’s Public Spaces” Archaeology (Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, Denis Ribouillault, University of Paris I Sorbonne and Pre-Columbian Studies) (Summer 2003)SF Ioli Kalavrezou, Visiting Scholar (Byzantine), fall term “Landscape, Power and Property: Topographical William C. Loerke, Professor of Byzantine Art, Landscape Painting in the Decoration of Villas and Emeritus+ Palaces in Rome and the Lazio, 530–630” Cécile Morrisson, Adviser for Byzantine Dorota Sikora, Centre for the Preservation of Historic Numismatics+ Landscape, Warsaw (Summer 2003)SF Joanne Pillsbury, Joint Appointment (Pre- “The Influence of Western European Garden Columbian); Assistant Professor of Pre-Columbian Treatises on Polish Baroque Garden Art” Art and Archaeology, University of Maryland, Christian A. Tschumi, ETH, Swiss Federal Institute College Park of Technology, Zurich (Summer 2003)SF Ihor Ševčenko, Honorary Senior Research Associate “Mirei Shigemori (896–975), Modernizing the (Byzantine); Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Japanese Garden” Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University+
0 Irfan Shahîd, Associate Fellow (Byzantine) Gardens Paul Stephenson, Joint Appointment (Byzantine); Gail Griffin, Superintendent of Gardens and Grounds Assistant Professor of Byzantine History, University Christopher Andreichuk, Gardener of Wisconsin–Madison, spring term Miguel Bonilla, Gardener Rigoberto Castellón, Crew Leader GENERAL STAFF Aaron Deadman, Gardener Administration and Special Programs Glenn Johnson, Crew Leader Christine Blazina, Docent Coordinator Larry Johnson, Foreman, Gardens and Grounds James N. Carder, Archivist and House Collection Donald Mehlman, Gardener Manager Manuel Pineda, Gardener Marlene L. Chazan, Director of Financial Operations Nena Sall, Crew Leader Elizabeth Gessesse, Accountant Franklin Vaughn, Gardener Pete Haggerty, Network Systems Administrator Marc Vedder, Gardener Christopher Harrison, Senior Exhibits Technician and Cabinetmaker Facilities And Services Nancy Hinton, Administrative Officer Michael Getter, Director of Facilities and Services Diana MacLeish, Museum Shop and Garden Gate Coordinator Buildings and Security JoAnn Murray, PC Computer Specialist Donald Pumphrey, Manager of Buildings and Security Maria Pelletier, Financial Assistant Abraham Cruz, Security Officer Maria Schmitt, Human Resources Officer Jorge Cruz, Building Assistant Carol Sellery, Administrative Assistant and Fellowship Embry Davis, Assistant Manager of Security and Program Manager Mailroom Coordinator Kristen Shawn, Assistant for Collections Management Timothy Desmond, Security Officer Project, Byzantine Collection José Delgado, Building Assistant Valerie Stains, Music Adviser and Coordinator, Alphonzo Dickson, Security Officer Friends of Music Nora Escobar, Building Assistant Alisha Stewart, Financial System Administrator/ Tiara Ford, Security Officer Accountant Mario García, Building Maintenance Assistant Arthur Goggins, Security Officer Library Mariano Jimeno, Building Assistant Sheila Klos, Head Librarian Rodolfo Marston, Security Officer Deborah Brown, Byzantine Bibliographer/Research Carlos Mendez, Building Assistant and Assistant for Services Librarian Special Events Kimball Clark, Head Cataloger Eric Von Mitchell, Security Officer Bridget Gazzo, Librarian, Pre-Columbian Studies José Pineda, Building Assistant Ingrid Gibson, Systems Librarian Dominador Salao, Building Assistant Ludmila Gordon, Acquisitions Assistant Joel Simon, Security Officer Regina Koehler, Copy Cataloger Anthony Suchaczewski, Security Officer Linda Lott, Librarian, Rare Book Collection Rhonaldo White, Security Officer Sam Milam, Acquisitions Assistant Sandra Parker-Provenzano, Cataloger Engineering Brooke Shilling, Curatorial Assistant, Byzantine James L. Briggs, Jr., Chief of Facilities Operations and Photograph and Fieldwork Archives Development Smiljka Soretiç, Assistant for Technical Services, Kenneth Johnson, Senior Building Systems Engineer Byzantine Photograph and Fieldwork Archives Eric Brown, Building Maintenance Assistant Toni Stephens, Library Assistant Natalia Teteriatnikov, Curator, Byzantine Photograph Fellows Building and Fieldwork Archives Hector Paz, Fellows Building Chef and Manager Tylka Vetula, Serials and Acquisitions Supervisor Dulce Diaz, Food Service Assistant Lila Guillén, Cook and Assistant Supervisor Publications Christopher Dunham, Desktop Publishing Specialist Photography Lab Joel Kalvesmaki, Editorial Assistant Joseph Mills, Photographer Grace Morsberger, Managing Editor David Topping, Publications Assistant