Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas explores the development of luxury arts from 1200 BC to the beginnings of European colonization in the sixteenth century. Made of precious ...

The Group Portraiture of Holland shows how artists such as Rembrandt and Frans Hals radically altered the relationship of the beholder to the work of art. Alois Riegl’s masterly study has become a ...

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 ...

This volume in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s series Occasional Papers on Antiquities (OPA) includes separate examinations of Mycenaean vases and Southern Italian vases and terracottas at the Museum, a ...

These symposium proceedings mark the culmination of the first phase of the Getty Conservation Institute's collaborative project with the State Bureau of Cultural Relics of the People's Republic of ...

On October 14-19, 1990, the 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Sponsored by the GCI, the Museum of New Mexico State Monuments, ...

The Lansdowne Herakles is a Roman copy of a Greek prototype that was found in the ruins of Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli. It was named for Lord Lansdowne, who once owned the work and displayed it in his ...

Harry Shunk (left) and János Kender at a dinner for artist Lucio Fontana at La Coupole in Montparnasse, Paris, 1961 (detail). The Getty Research Institute, 2014.R.20. Photo: Shunk-Kender The German ...

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 ...

Annette Michelson, ca. 1966. The Getty Research Institute, 2014.M.26. Photo: Peter Hujar. Gift of Annette Michelson. © The Peter Hujar Archive, LLC Michelson's ...

The nude—the unclothed or partially clothed human body—has been featured in European art for millennia. After 1400, with the waning of the Middle Ages, artists depicted nudes as increasingly ...

One of the greatest challenges faced today by those responsible for ancient cultural sites is that of maintaining the delicate balance between conserving these fragile resources and making them ...