Arthur Kingsley Porter Photographs of Architecture and Manuscripts, 1980s
- PH.BZ.007
- Collection
- 1980 - 1989
Selections from Porter's photograph collection at Harvard that Porter took and compiled in the early 20th century. These duplicate photographs depict Byzantine and Medieval architecture, wall paintings, and sculpture from Egypt, France, Greece, Is...
Porter, Arthur Kingsley
Corpus of Early Christian and Byzantine Silver, 1981-1986
- MS.BZ.020
- Collection
- 1981 - 1986
The collection documents approximately 1,500 Byzantine silver vessels and utensils produced for liturgical and domestic use between 300 and 1453 CE within the geographical boundaries of the Roman and Byzantine empires (as known, ca. 1985). Silver ...
Diebold, William
Ernst Kitzinger Research Papers and Photographs, 1940s-1980s
- MS.BZ.016
- Collection
- 1940 - 1989
The collection documents the fieldwork project undertaken by Kitzinger to survey twelfth-century Norman mosaics in Sicily during the 1950s, including those at the Capella Palatina and Martorana in Palermo and at the cathedrals in Cefalù and Monrea...
Kitzinger, Ernst
Franklin M. Biebel Photograph Albums of Mosaics, ca. 1950s
- PH.BZ.006
- Collection
- 1950 - 1959
Assembled by Biebel around 1955, the albums include photographs, plans, and documentary information on floor mosaics from Byzantium and the West. It also includes one album of coptic textiles. The most extensive coverage is of the Gerasa (Jerash) ...
Biebel, Franklin M. (Franklin Matthews)
Index of Christian Art, 1917-1991
- PH.BZ.003
- Collection
- 1917 - 1991
A thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects, primarily before 1400 CE. This Index records works of art depicting a Christian theme or context, in seventeen different media, including manuscripts, metalwork, sculpt...
Morey, Charles Rufus
Kurt Weitzmann Photographs of Manuscripts, 1980s-1990s
- PH.BZ.008
- Collection
- 1980 - 1999
Duplicate photographs of Greek manuscripts, Latin manuscripts, and ancient book illuminations originally compiled by Kurt Weitzmann throughout his career from the early 1930s to the 1980s.
Weitzmann, Kurt