To Hell and Back: Dante’s Inferno in Art and Film
UPDATE: The screening of the 1911 film L’Inferno, scheduled for Saturday, June 23, at 3:00 p.m., has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.... Read More
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A Horse, Of Course! Curator Anne Woollett on Equine Painting
Horses have been the subject of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and other renderings for thousands of years. They have been depicted as companions of man,... Read More
All Shook Up! Protecting Art in an Earthquake
When you look at sculpture in the Getty Museum’s galleries, you wouldn’t guess that some of the pedestals are somewhat unusual. Under their polished... Read More
Fragonard’s “Les Beignets”: How Much Sweeter Can Life Be?
In this time of uncertainty, art can bring pleasure to the eye, nourishment to the mind, and also solace to the heart. A work... Read More
Explorations in Darkness and Light: Odilon Redon
My job as research assistant to Marcia Reed, chief curator at the Getty Research Institute, and Louis Marchesano, curator of prints & drawings, might... Read More
Masterpiece of the Week: A Silver Treasure Spared the King’s Meltdown
This silver fountain, featured in the exhibition The Life of Art and our current Masterpiece of the Week tours, is a survivor of one... Read More
Herb Ritts’s Revolutionary Props
Chains. Pedestals. Balloons. Sea creatures. Those are just some of the props that photographer Herb Ritts employed to set a scene, adorn his models,... Read More
The Italian Comedians Go on View in Elegant Company
The Getty Museum’s most recent painting acquisition, Jean-Antoine Watteau’s The Italian Comedians, is now on view at the Getty Center. It’s installed in Gallery... Read More
Getty Museum Contributes 3,325 Artworks to Google Art Project
Van Gogh’s Irises is now available for your personal art collection, along with Turner’s Modern Rome, Rembrandt’s The Abduction of Europa, and over 3,000... Read More
How Herb Ritts Created an Icon
When Herb Ritts created this image, it was touch-and-go whether he would get his crew and model off the El Mirage lake bed before... Read More
Watteau’s Serious Clown Comes to the Getty
Antoine Watteau is famous for his theatrical pictures of the 18th-century French megarich at their elegant balls and fêtes galantes. Theater of a different... Read More
From Auction to Gallery: A Major Renaissance Portrait Drawing for the Getty
I find auctions terrifying. Mesmerizing, but terrifying. When a major early Renaissance portrait drawing came up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York a... Read More