Department of Paintings

Rediscovered Painting by Bronzino Goes on Permanent View at the Getty Center

A Renaissance rediscovery joins the collections.

Amy Hood | October 3, 2019

LACMA masterpieces in the Getty Center galleries.

Amy Hood | July 22, 2019

Getty curator Anne Woollett explores the life of this great painter through two biographies by his contemporaries.

Newly conserved paintings of a nearly forgotten master.

Laura Llewellyn | June 18, 2019

A new exhibition focuses on Manet as a painter of modern life.

Exploring the art and politics of Florence in the late 1520s through the works of one painter.

Study and treatment of a Renaissance altarpiece reveals new details about the artist’s working method, as well as his brilliant colors

Chelika Yapa | February 5, 2019

Paintings move around the museum on a weekly basis—why?

Kevin Torres-Spicer | September 6, 2018

Understanding Édouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh through two deeply personal biographies.

Viewing the art and career of Rembrandt through the lens of three artist-authors writing within fifty years of his death.

Glimpse the origins of the discipline of art history in this discussion of three short biographies by Giorgio Vasari.

Follow two curators as they talk about Baroque paintings.