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In these studies Gary Vikan has opened new perspectives on the daily life and material culture of Late Antiquity - more specifically, on icons and rel...
Confessions of a Museum Director
Sacred and Stolen is the memoir of an art museum director with the courage to reveal what goes on behind the scenes. Gary Vikan lays bare the messy un...
Gary Vikan examines the portable artifacts of eastern Mediterranean pilgrimage from the 5th to the 7th century, presenting them in the context of cont...
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These sculptures reflect the Blisses' wide-ranging tastes and extraordinary connoisseurship. About a quarter are Greco-Roman; nearly two-thirds of the...
A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death
A towering figure in the art world unravels the mystery of the world’s most controversial relic. The history of the Christian church is strewn with ...
Papers of the Symposium Held May 16-18, 1986, at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, and Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., Organized by Susan A. Boyd, Marlia Mundell Mango, and Gary Vikan
The twenty papers included in this volume were presented at an international symposium held in Baltimore and Washington in May, 1986. Planned to coinc...
This memoir follows our adventures in Nicolae Ceausescu's communist Romania, where I was an IREX Fellow during the 1974-1975 academic year, studying t...