(L-R) Dr. Alessia Rossi (IMA), Julia Gearhart, and Dr. Vangelis Maladakis, consult items in the Weitzmann archive of Visual Resources.
It has been an honor to host, with our colleagues in the Index of Medieval Art, Dr. Vangelis Maladakis, from October 28 through November 22. Dr. Maladakis is a Byzantine archaeologist at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of Chalcidice and Mount Athos. His research interests focus on Byzantine archaeology and art, and on the historiography of the Athonite studies. Maladakis’ visit has been funded by a Flash Grant from the Humanities Council as a project titled “Unboxing archives: The Untold Story of Professor Kurt Weitzmann’s Work on Mount Athos in the 1930s” but which is also part of the larger Connecting Histories: the Princeton and Mount Athos Legacy project conceived and managed by Julia Gearhart and Alessia Rossi (IMA). As a visiting researcher Dr. Maladakis dove into the documents and photographs in Visual Resources, as well as those related to Weitzmann in Firestone, Mudd Library, and the IAS.
The Visual Resources Committee is circulating a survey to faculty this semester. Please keep an eye out for the survey and we thank you for completing it!
Antioch panel at American Society of Overseas Research Annual Conference
Julia Gearhart was part of a panel on the Antioch excavation at the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) annual conference in Boston on November 22. The workshop/panel, convened by Nicole Berlin, of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, and Elizabeth Molacek, of the University of Texas at Dallas, was titled Rebuilding Antioch: Collaborative Approaches to the Ancient City. Fellow panelists Jennifer Kingsley and Jennifer Stager (both of Johns Hopkins) shared how they incorporated archival research and public-facing outcomes (museum labels and digital projects) with Antioch as the subject. It was also lovely to hear, from fellow panelist Carolyn Laferrière, how the Antioch mosaics will feature in the new Princeton University Art Museum.
Poster of La Colombaria: 1944–2024 exhibition featuring Pennoyer photograph
Exhibition of department collections at La Colombaria, Florence, Italy December 6–March 9, 2025
Visual Resources has provided high-resolution images from the Albert Sheldon Pennoyer collection to be included in an exhibition marking 100 years since the destruction of the l’Accademia Colombaria in World War II. There will be a presentation (via Zoom) on December 6. The exhibition, if you can make it to Florence, will be on view until March 9, 2025.
Active use of Butler archive in two Fall 2024 courses
It has been a joy introducing students to the Howard Crosby Butler archive in Competing Professions (Art 291) and Drawing Archaeology (Art 407) this semester. Students from both courses are welcome to consult the archive in person, as well as the Howard Crosby Butler Collection.