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  | | The Holy Shroud(1st Edition) A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death by Gary Vikan Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Pegasus Books ISBN-13: 978-1-64313-432-1, ISBN: 1-64313-432-9 "A leading figure in the art world unravels the mystery of the world’s most controversial relic.The history of the Christian church is strewn with holy relics and artifacts, none more controversial than the Shroud of Turin, the supposed burial cloth of Christ. In The Holy Shroud Gary Vikan shows that the shroud is not the burial cloth of Jesus, but rather a photograph-like body print of a medieval Frenchman created by a brilliant artist ..." |
 | | Dumbarton Oaks Collection Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection from the Ptolemaic Period to the Renaissance by Gary K Vikan 1995 Hardcover by Director Gary Vikan, Dumbarton Oaks, Gary K. Vikan Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1995 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-212-1, ISBN: 0-88402-212-9 "See also G. M. A. Hanfmann and N. H. Ramage, Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975 (Cambridge, Mass. -London, 1978), no. 225. ... 15 to 18 of this volume may all be assigned to fifth- or sixth-century Oxyrhynchus (primarily on the basis of ornament comparisons) suggests that this site did not have a clear period style and. by extension, that the traditional style-evolution model for dating its sculpture (Kitzinger, "Notes") ..." |
 | | Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium(1st Edition) (Variorum Collected Studies Series) by Gary Vikan, Dr. Gray Vikan Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 2003 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-86078-934-5, ISBN: 0-86078-934-9 "In these studies Gary Vikan has opened new perspectives on the daily life and material culture of Late Antiquity - more specifically, on icons and relics, and on objects revealing of the world of pilgrimage, the early cult of saints, and marriage. He contextualizes these familiar categories of object in the patterns of belief and ritual extracted from contemporary texts and the objects themselves, in order to understand their meaning wi ..." |
 | | Ethiopian Art(1st Edition) The Walters Art Museum by Gary Vikan, Getatchew Haile, Jacques Mercier, Deborah E. . Horowitz, Susan Tobin, Deborah Ellen Horowitz, Kelly M. Holbert Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2006 by Third Millenium Pub Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-903942-02-4, ISBN: 1-903942-02-0 "The collection of Ethiopian art at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore is one of the largest and finest outside of Ethiopia, both in terms of depth and range. This book celebrates the art of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia in metalwork, processional crosses, painted icons and illuminated manuscripts used in the services of the Church and reveals a vibrant artistic world of color, ritual and spirituality." |
 | | Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann by Gary Vikan, Dr. Gray Vikan, Kurt Weitzmann Hardcover, 231 Pages, Published 1973 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-03889-6, ISBN: 0-691-03889-9 " The Description for this book, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann, will be forthcoming." |
 | | Sacred and Stolen Confessions of a Museum Director by Gary Vikan 305 Pages, Published 2016 by Selectbooks, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-59079-401-2, ISBN: 1-59079-401-X "I told him that shortly after my secret April 1983 meeting with Yanni Petsopoulos, I received a catch-up-on-news phone call from Mary Jane Victor. In the course of the conversation I mentioned a magnificent 14th-century icon of John the Baptist belonging to Yanni that I had seen in the New York penthouse of a major, though very discrete, collector of Byzantine art. Other icons in that penthouse were lent to the Dumbarton Oaks exhib ..." |
 | | Postcards from the Walters by Gary Vikan Hardcover, Published 2012 by Walters Art Museum, Us ISBN-13: 978-0-911886-80-1, ISBN: 0-911886-80-X |
 | | Beyond the Turnstile(9th Edition) Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values by Selma Holo, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Elazar Barkan, Anthony Appiah, Carlos Monsivais, David Wilson, Jorge Wagensberg, Maxwell L. Anderson, Donny George Youkhanna, Gary Matthews Jr., Lita Albuquerque, Joseph E. Aoun, Placido Arango, Javier Arnaldo, Leticia Azcue Brea, Marco Barrera Bassols, Ivan Guillermo Barrios, David Bomford, Faya Causey, Elliot Davis, James Elkins, Shelly Errington, Gerardo Estrada Rodríguez, Steven Evans, James Folsom, Tom L. Freudenheim, Fredrik Hiebert, Leonard Krishtalka, Ramiro Martinez, Charles Merewether, Bernard Mueller, Ilber Ortayli, Santiago Palomero, Carrie Przybilla, Nelly Robles García, Steven Seidel, Jon L. Seydl, Alan Shestack, Cherise Smith, Lori Starr, Gary Vikan, Vanda Vitali, James Walvin, Jay Wiegel, Walvin/Vitali/Vikan/ Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2009 by Altamira Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-1221-6, ISBN: 0-7591-1221-5 "Beyond the Turnstile argues that museums are indispensable to civil society, especially in an era in which museums often are reduced to cultural businesses or "edu-tainment" sites. Is it inevitable that a museum's success will be measured solely by how many people come through the door and how much money they spend? The eminent contributors to this volume provide museum leaders with a different set of criteria for evaluating the success ..." |
 | | Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art, Revised Edition(Updated) (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection Publications) by Director Gary Vikan Paperback, 118 Pages, Published 2011 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-358-6, ISBN: 0-88402-358-3 " Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art explores the portable artifacts of eastern Mediterranean pilgrimage from the fifth to the seventh century, presenting them in the context of contemporary pilgrims’ texts and the archaeology of sacred sites. The book shows how the iconography and devotional piety of Byzantine pilgrimage art changed, and it surveys the material and social culture of pilgrimage. What did these early religious travelers take ..." |
 | | Sacred Arts and City Life(1st Edition) The Glory of Medieval Novgorod by Gary Vikan, Director Gary Vikan, C. Griffith Mann, Yevgenia Petrova, Evgenii︠a︡ Andreevna Petrova, Gosudarstvennyĭ Russkiĭ Muzeĭ, Bucerius Kunst Forum Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by Other Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-911886-59-7, ISBN: 0-911886-59-1 "Combining 10 essays by archaeologists, art and architectural historians, and historians, this book is one of the first in English to focus on Novgorod from a wide range of disciplines. The book, which also includes entries on all of the objects featured in the Walters Art Museum exhibition, is illustrated by new color and black-and-white photography." |
 | | Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery Belgium, 1250-1530 by Walters Art Gallery, Dr. Gary Vikan, Judith H. Oliver, Lilian M. Randall, Christopher Clarkson, Claudia Mark Hardcover, 760 Pages, Published 1997 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-5317-3, ISBN: 0-8018-5317-6 |
 | | The Holy Shroud A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death by Gary Vikan 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Simon And Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-64313-433-8, ISBN: 1-64313-433-7 "In The Holy Shroud Gary Vikan shows that the shroud is not the burial cloth of Jesus, but rather a photograph-like body print of a medieval Frenchman created by a brilliant artist serving the royal court in the time of the Black Death." |
 | | Stubbs & the Horse(1st Edition) by Malcolm Blake Warner, Robin Blake, Lance Mayer, Gay Myers, Foreword-Timothy Ports, Foreword-Gary Vikan, Kimbell Art Museum, George Stubbs, National Gallery Paperback, 229 Pages, Published 2004 by Yale University Press (2004) ISBN-13: 978-0-912804-42-2, ISBN: 0-912804-42-4 |
 | | Making History/ Making Art MICA by Douglas L. Frost, Fred Lazarus Iv, Gary Vikan, Doreen Bolger, Jeff Koons, Hardcover, 319 Pages, Published 2010 by Maryland Institute College Of Art ISBN-13: 978-0-9669677-0-8, ISBN: 0-9669677-0-4 |
 | | The Manual of Museum Exhibitions(Updated) by Barry Lord, Gail Dexter Lord, Ralph Appelbaum, Martha Black, Patrick Blandin, Robert Bloomfield, Elizabeth Broun, Professor Kathleen Brown, Stephen L. Cox, Barry Crean, David Erskine Sir, Colin Dawes, Susan Dunlop, Director Gary Vikan, Kevin Gosling, Duncan Grewcock, Till Hahn, Kristin Johnson, Brad King, Margaret May, Heather Maximea, Yves Mayrand, Hooley Mclaughlin, John Millard, Martha Morris, John Nicks, Peter Osborne, Anne Pennington, William Phippen, Maria Piacente, Kate Sellers, Robert Scott, Kevan Shaw, Barbara Soren, Chuck Sutyla, Scott Sayre, Professor Michael Wilson, Fred Wartna, David B. Whitehouse, Patterson Williams, Erich Zuern Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2001 by Altamira Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0234-7, ISBN: 0-7591-0234-1 "The Manual of Museum Exhibitions is a practical, hands-on, comprehensive guide to the entire process of planning, designing, producing, and evaluating exhibitions for museums of all kinds. Conceived, organized, and edited by Gail and Barry Lord, this invaluable book includes contributions by masters of each step in the complex art of museum exhibition-making. Subjects range from traditional displays of art, artifacts, and specimens from ..." |
 | | Japanese Cloisonne Enamels(1st Edition) The Stephen W. Fisher Collection by Robert Michael Mintz, Gary Vikan, Stephen W. Fisher, Walters Art Museum Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2009 by Walters Art Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-911886-71-9, ISBN: 0-911886-71-0 "Created as objects of unsurpassed beauty and refined elegance, the enameled metal boxes, vases, trays, and urns at the heart of this exhibition have the potential to transport us back to an era rich with sumptuous decoration and marked by cultural discovery. In the decades leading to the dawn of the 20th century, these masterful works of art featured prominently in the international cultural and industrial expositions that occurred almo ..." |
 | | The St. Peter Icon of Dumbarton Oaks by Kurt Weitzmann, Gary Vikan Paperback, 47 Pages, Published 1983 by Dumbarton Oaks ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-133-9, ISBN: 0-88402-133-5 "The St. Peter Icon of Dumbarton Oaks by Kurt Weitzmann (Gary Vikan, series editor). 1983 paperback published by Dumbarton Oaks. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs." |
 | | From the Holy Land to Graceland Sacred People, Places and Things in Our Lives by Director Gary Vikan Digital, 202 Pages, Published 2012 by American Alliance Of Museums ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7679-6, ISBN: 1-4422-7679-7 "Were it a question for Elvis of official canonization by the roman Catholic Church, the notion of Saint Elvis would be met with ridicule, not for lack of possible Elvis miracles, but rather for Elvis'ss obvious failure to live an exemplary, virtuous, and specifically ... A review of the six necessary steps laid out in the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister, promulgated in 1983 by John Paul II, is daunting indeed, ..." |
 | | Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann by Gary Vikan Published 1973 ISBN-13: 978-0-89103-890-0, ISBN: 0-89103-890-6 |
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