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Posted in Architecture and Design, Art, Paintings

Name Those Irises (and Win a Book from Getty Publications)

By Annelisa Stephan | Published: April 9, 2010
Eyes (detail) - can you guess the artist?

When we set out to design this blog, we looked at irises—lots of them. We asked curators and members of the blog team to pick favorite irises, both literal and metaphorical. There were camera irises, like those in the cache… More»

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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Paintings

Getty Up! Welcome to the Getty’s New Blog

By Julie Jaskol | Published: April 5, 2010
Irises, Vincent van Gogh, 1889

The Iris is a reference to the Getty Museum’s best-known painting: Irises by Vincent van Gogh. That painting is surrounded by knots of visitors most of the time; it’s behind glass because so many people want to reach out and… More»

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