Alfred Stieglitz, The Hand of Man, 1902, Gelatin silver print , c. 1933, 8.3 x 11.3 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes is intended ...

9. Mosaic Panel with Peacock Facing Left Roman, from Syria, possibly Emesa (present-day Homs), AD 400–600 Stone tesserae, 196.9 cm × 115.5 cm 75.AH.121 Gift of William Wahler 10. Mosaic Panel with ...

Ancient Iran, historically known as Persia, was the dominant nation of western Asia for over twelve centuries, with three successive native dynasties—the Achaemenid, the Parthian, and the ...

This exhibition presents the work of two 20th-century photographers, Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto, who represent important but alternate paths in Japanese ...

Modern studies of ancient Greek vases have most often focused on the iconography of the painted images. Yet we know that in antiquity the potting of the vases was held in at least as much esteem as ...

The Villa dei Papiri was a sumptuous private residence on the Bay of Naples, just outside the Roman town of Herculaneum. Deeply buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, it was rediscovered ...

Travel to Palmyra by Europeans began with the historic 1691 expedition undertaken by British merchants based in Aleppo who, upon hearing stories about this vast ruin, made the dangerous journey across ...

Rue Darb el-Barabra, Robertson and Beato, ca. 1857. Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography Collection. The Getty Research Institute, 2008.R.3 Exceptionally strong holdings of this genre were ...

This is the sixth volume in the Museum’s series of Occasional Papers on Antiquities. Important Roman funerary monuments in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection and other collections are examined, and ...

A kind of encyclopedia of animals, the bestiary was among the most popular illuminated texts in northern Europe during the Middle Ages (about 500–1500). Because medieval Christians understood every ...

Arrangement of Specimens was made by French photographer Hippolyte Bayard in about 1842. This work of art lives at the Getty Center. Find out if it's on view. Have you ever seen a blue photograph? If ...

Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Figures 3, 9–17, 22–24, 28, 32, 33, 36, 38, 40, 51, and 54 are reproduced with the ...