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The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
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Byzantine Studies
Edited book | Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions
Chapter | Atypical Patrimony. Collecting Byzantine Art in American University Museums
Abstract
American university museums became important institutions for the study and popularisation of Byzantine art in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Largely confined to major East Coast universities, university museums, led by Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks, acquired significant amount of Byzantine art between the two World Wars and sponsored excavations. For the most part this interest was motivated not from personal connections with Greek culture or the lands of the Byzantine Empire, but because of the aesthetic significance and scholarly interest of this art. The French and English Mandates in Syria and Palestine aided these acquisitions, a colonial heritage of Byzantine studies that has remained little studied.
Submitted: Nov. 7, 2021 | Accepted: March 16, 2022 | Published Aug. 22, 2022 | Language: en
Keywords Byzantine art • American university museums • American University Museums • English Mandate • French mandate • Robert and Mildred Bliss • French Mandate • Royall Tyler • English mandate
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Section 1. Patrimoines
Section 2. Linking Fields, Approaches, and Methods
Section 3. Textual Exchanges
Section 4. Continuity and Break: From Ancient to Medieval Worlds
Section 5. Social, Cultural, and Material Networks
Section 6. Byzantium and the Turks
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Nelson Robert |
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Atypical Patrimony. Collecting Byzantine Art in American University Museums |
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American university museums became important institutions for the study and popularisation of Byzantine art in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Largely confined to major East Coast universities, university museums, led by Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks, acquired significant amount of Byzantine art between the two World Wars and sponsored excavations. For the most part this interest was motivated not from personal connections with Greek culture or the lands of the Byzantine Empire, but because of the aesthetic significance and scholarly interest of this art. The French and English Mandates in Syria and Palestine aided these acquisitions, a colonial heritage of Byzantine studies that has remained little studied. |
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The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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2022-08-22 |
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2022-03-16 |
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2021-11-07 |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-590-2/atypical-patrimony-collecting-byzantine-art-in-ame/ |
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10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2/004 |
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3715-9453 |
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978-88-6969-590-2 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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American University Museums |
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American university museums |
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Byzantine art |
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English Mandate |
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English mandate |
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French Mandate |
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French mandate |
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Robert and Mildred Bliss |
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Royall Tyler |
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