A Portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs Goes on View at the Getty Center
Friendship and a shared interest in classical antiquity brought this painter and subject together.
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Read MoreA new exhibition explores depictions of paradise across Europe and Asia.
Read MoreInside the storied history of a great antiquities collection.
Read MoreA Renaissance drawing reexamined as a modern work of art.
Read MoreA medievalist's-eye-view of Game of Thrones, season 5.
Read MoreWriter Victoria Finlay devotes her life to uncovering the human stories behind colors
Read MoreEducating French children to value colonialism.
Read MoreA conservator’s view of a complex and unusual object by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Read MoreMake your own regal proclamation in rolled clay with these tips from artist Anna Mayer.
Read MoreIt is the week of return—of the vernal equinox, and of the shooting stars—the blue blue-violet alliums in Robert Irwin’s Central Garden at the Getty Center. We’ve been waiting. In late-ish February, green shoots began rocketing from the rich...
Read MoreI popped by the Getty Conservation Institute’s science labs this week to be met with a surprise: a large white Doug Wheeler painting (1964, Untitled, acrylic) alongside the beakers and other scientific equipment. Wheeler is best known for his...
Read MoreThis Cupid once decorated a king’s love nest.
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