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Connecting the Art Historical Dots

By Melissa Abraham | Published: August 1, 2013
Connecting Art Histories participants studying frescoes in the Casa Vasari palace in Florence, Italy. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Connecting Art Histories participants studying frescoes in the Casa Vasari palace in Florence, Italy.

A Getty Foundation initiative is expanding the frontiers of art history by bringing scholars together from around the globe. More»

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Getty Voices: OSCI and The Future of Digital Publishing

By Anne Helmreich | Published: July 8, 2013
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Digital isn’t just revolutionizing publishing. It’s revolutionizing the museum. More»

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India’s Vibrant Cultural Heritage Comes to Life at Nagaur Fort

By Melissa Abraham | Published: July 2, 2013
Nagaur, Sheesh Mahal: vault painting with ladies amid clouds and lightning bolts. © Courtauld Institute of Art
Nagaur, Sheesh Mahal: vault painting with ladies amid clouds and lightning bolts. © Courtauld Institute of Art

A 20-year project Initiated by the Getty Foundation at the Historic Fort Has Lasting Effects Located in northwest India, a two hour drive from the fortress city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan lies the Nagaur-Ahhichatragarh Fort. Begun in the 12th century… More»

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Christmas at the South Pole: Conserving Sites of Antarctic Exploration

By Laura Cogburn | Published: December 20, 2012
Ernest Shackleton's 1908 Nimrod expedition base, Cape Royds
Ernest Shackleton's 1908 Nimrod expedition base, Cape Royds. © Antarctic Heritage Trust, nzaht.org

“The last view of civilization, the last sight of fields, and trees, and flowers, had come and gone on Christmas Eve, 1901, and as the night fell, the blue outline of friendly New Zealand was lost to us in the… More»

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Gil de Castro, Painter of Latin American Independence Movement, Gets a Fresh Look in New Getty-Supported Publication

By Katie Underwood | Published: December 7, 2012
José Olaya / José Gil de Castro
José Olaya, 1828, José Gil de Castro. Oil on canvas, 204 x 137 cm. Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Peru, Lima. Gil de Castro Project. Photo: Daniel Giannoni

In 2008 a team of Latin American scholars led by Natalia Majluf, director of the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) in Peru, was awarded a Collaborative Research Grant from the Getty Foundation for a study of painter José Gil… More»

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It Takes a Village: Understanding Spanish American Colonial Art from the Ground Up

By Katie Underwood | Published: September 7, 2012
Serie Reyes y Profetas de Israe / Marcos Zapata

Art history is sometimes imagined as a discipline of solitary scholars, not unlike King Solomon as depicted in this Viceregal painting by Marcos Zapata: alone in a study, poring over texts, and waiting for the moment of inspiration (perhaps divine?)… More»

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Field Report from the Art History Olympics, the 33rd CIHA Congress

By Anne Helmreich | Published: August 17, 2012
Program book and Anne Helmreich's attendee badge from the 2012 CIHA conference

Art history, like most other professions, relies on acronyms. CIHA refers to the International Committee for the History of Art, which is one of the oldest organizations in the profession, founded in 1930. I recently attended CIHA’s 33rd Congress in… More»

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Rubens’s Masterful “Triumph of the Eucharist” Series to be Conserved

By Melissa Abraham | Published: July 10, 2012
Detail from Triumph of the Eucharist over Idolatry, Peter Paul Rubens, 1625-6, oil on panel. ©Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
Detail from Triumph of the Eucharist over Idolatry, Peter Paul Rubens, 1625-6, oil on panel. ©Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

Thanks to a two-year grant from the Getty Foundation as part of the Getty’s ongoing Panel Paintings Initiative, the Museo Nacional del Prado is now conserving a magnificent series of six panel paintings completed in 1626 by artist Peter Paul… More»

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Posted in Architecture and Design, Getty Foundation

Inside Brunelleschi’s Dome

By Ron Hartwig | Published: September 20, 2010
View of Brunelleschi's dome from the first gallery. Photo courtesy of the project for the photographic documentation of the Cupola of St. Maria del Fiore in Florence
View of Brunelleschi's dome from the first gallery. Photo courtesy of the project for the photographic documentation of the Cupola of St. Maria del Fiore in Florence

Italy is full of extraordinary, breathtaking round-the-corner experiences. You round a corner in Rome and find the Pantheon. In Pisa it could be the Torre Pendente di Pisa, better known as the Leaning Tower. When you arrive at the Florence… More»

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      Christening the new gallery and expanded exhibition space, Connecting Seas: A Visual History of Discoveries and Encounters maps cross-continent adventures, cultural misunderstandings, storytelling and exploration from a time where ocean travel was the primary means by which people and knowledge circulated.

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      Chinese objects exhibited at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, London 1851. Getty Research Institute.
      Kwan-ko-dzu-setsu: a history of Japanese antiquities, the ceramic part, part VII, Ninagawa Noritane, 1880. Getty Research Institute.
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