Atypical Patrimony. Collecting Byzantine Art in American University Museums

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6999
dc.contributor.author	Nelson Robert
dc.title	Atypical Patrimony. Collecting Byzantine Art in American University Museums
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-08-22
dc.dateAccepted	2022-03-16
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-11-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-590-2/atypical-patrimony-collecting-byzantine-art-in-ame/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2/004
dc.identifier.eissn	3715-9453
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dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-590-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	American University Museums
dc.subject	American university museums
dc.subject	Byzantine art
dc.subject	English Mandate
dc.subject	English mandate
dc.subject	French Mandate
dc.subject	French mandate
dc.subject	Robert and Mildred Bliss
dc.subject	Royall Tyler

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Atypical Patrimony. Collecting Byzantine Art in American University Museums

Robert Nelson Yale University, New Haven

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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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Aug. 22, 2022

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March 16, 2022

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Nov. 7, 2021

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978-88-6969-590-2

Keywords: Byzantine art • American university museums • English mandate • Royall Tyler • French Mandate • French mandate • English Mandate • Robert and Mildred Bliss • American University Museums

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