Notes From a 1930s School Trip to Notre-Dame de Paris
Peek inside a girl’s illustrated notebook during a tour of the cathedral on a rainy day in Paris.
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Notre-Dame’s Centuries of Survival, Captured in Art
A guided tour of Notre-Dame's gems and the stories they tell.
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Windows into Paris
Photographer Gail Albert-Halaban spent a year exploring apartment windows of Paris.
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Louis XIV’s Golden Dome
A rare print for the dome of the Invalides in Paris reflects Louis XIV’s ambitions to make Paris “a new European center of architectural magnificence.”
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Édouard Manet’s Spring Joins the Getty Museum Galleries
For Manet, fashion and the femininity were metaphors for the skilled artifice of painting itself.
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Why Is This Drawing in a Museum?
A look inside a sketchbook by Degas reveals the story behind a unusual drawing.
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No Beauty Contest: 18th-Century English Lord Curates Getty Museum Gallery
Two pieces brought out from storage complete the story of the Judgment of Paris in a new installation at the Getty Center.
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The Quotable Man Ray
Man Ray’s black and white portraits are widely celebrated, but two recent acquisitions by the Getty Research Institute shift the focus back on the... Read More
Harvard Historian Robert Darnton on Blogging, 18th-Century Style
Opening this week at the Getty Center is Paris: Life & Luxury, which traces the refined activities that took place inside a luxurious Parisian... Read More
Beyond the First Impression: Rediscovering Monet in Paris
Though his name has become synonymous with the 19th century’s canonical movement of Impressionism, and though his masterpieces hang proudly in the halls of... Read More