Department of Paintings

Meet the Getty Museum’s New Senior Curator of Paintings, Davide Gasparotto

Say hello to the Getty Museum's new paintings chief.

Lyra Kilston | April 21, 2015

How a frame conservator plays matchmaker between frames and paintings.

Steve Saldivar | December 5, 2014

For Manet, fashion and the femininity were metaphors for the skilled artifice of painting itself.

Scott Allan | November 25, 2014

This beautiful painting contains the germ of modern art as we know it.

Timothy Potts | November 24, 2014

What you need to know about James Ensor, in 12 minutes.

Chelsea Chenelle | September 2, 2014

Paintings and tapestries by the great baroque artist come to the Getty in October.

Melissa Abraham | June 27, 2014

Belgium’s most eccentric, scandalous, and shocking painter is the focus of an exhibition at the Getty Center this summer.

Lyra Kilston | June 10, 2014

The deep appeal of the imagined landscape.

A youthful, confident Rembrandt shakes things up in the paintings galleries.

Amy Hood | October 29, 2013

Johannes Vermeer is a beloved artist. Is he also a great one?

Annelisa Stephan | February 20, 2013

Vermeer's newly arrived Woman in Blue Reading a Letter seems calmly at home in our galleries—but introduces a distinctive new presence.