All Posts by Peter Bonfitto

I'm co-curator of the exhibition Connecting Seas: A Visual History of Discoveries and Encounters at the Getty Research Institute.

Funerary Portraiture Helps Scholars Reconstruct the Social History of Ancient Palmyra

Faces of ancient Palmyra.

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Annelisa Stephan and Peter Bonfitto | February 24, 2017

Getty Voices: Aztec Idols, Explorers, and Egyptomania

How did a 19th century scholar misidentify an Aztec sculpture as Egyptian?

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Peter Bonfitto | January 13, 2014