Since 2008, the antiquities conservation and curatorial departments at the J. Paul Getty Museum have been working with colleagues at the Antikensammlung in Berlin to study and conserve a group of South Italian (Apulian) vases dating to the 4th century B.C. from Berlin’s collection. The group consists of thirteen vases, reportedly discovered in fragments in [...]
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Tags: antiquities conservation, Berlin Antikensammlung, ceramics, collaboration, conservation science, Greek art, vase-painting, X-radiography
The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Bibliothèque nationale de France are collaborating on the research and conservation treatment of the Berthouville Treasure, the extraordinary Roman silver hoard from the Bibliotheque’s Cabinet des Médailles. Almost one hundred objects arrived at the Getty Villa in December 2010, and technical examination, analysis, and photography of the individual [...]
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Tags: antiquities conservation, Berthouville Treasure, Mercury, silver
Do you picture archaeological sites as dry, dusty piles of stones? Meet Peirene, an ancient Greek ruin so tantalizing that archaeologists have literally died for it. Dry and dusty this place is not. The story of the alluring ruin is told in the book Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain in Three Millennia, recently published by the [...]
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Tags: ancient Greece, archaeological sites, archaeology, art books, books, Greek art, Peirene
Accompanying you as you wander the gardens at the Getty Villa are 44 beings in bronze—animals, gods, satyrs, troubled philosophers, athletic youths crouched for action, wild-eyed old men with scraggly beards. These are replicas of ancient Roman sculptures commissioned by J. Paul Getty in the 197os from the Chiurazzi foundry in Naples, Italy, one of [...]
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Tags: bronze sculpture, Chiurazzi foundry, J. Paul Getty, Outer Peristyle, Roman art, Roman gardens, Villa dei Papiri
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In ancient Rome, togas were no laughing matter. They were the fashion must-have for all male citizens, but men hated them: they were heavy, made your left arm as useful as a T. Rex’s, and required a team of highly trained slaves to put on and take off. Also, they were made of wool, which [...]
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Tags: ancient Rome, College Night, history, Rome, togas, video
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Have you ever come across a piece of ancient art that looked suspiciously…modern? It’s hard to believe that Cycladic figures, with their sleek minimalist outlines, were made more than 4,000 years before sculptors Constantin Brancusi and Henry Moore came along. The stark silhouettes of the figures on a Greek vase may appear like something out [...]
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Tags: Christopher Green, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, Giorgio de Chirico, Jens Daehner, Modern Antiquity, modern art, Pablo Picasso
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibilotheque nationale de France (the department of coins, medals, and antiques of the National Library of France) are collaborating on the research and conservation treatment of the Berthouville Treasure, an extraordinary group of Roman silver objects from Paris. The collection of ancient luxury items will [...]
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Tags: antiquities conservation, Berthouville Treasure, silver
This Saturday, October 22, the Getty Museum is teaming up with the Archaeological Institute of America to celebrate National Archaeology Day. The Villa, with its Roman-inspired architecture and gardens and collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, is a great place to explore the meaning and importance of archaeology—the study of past cultures through the [...]
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Tags: Archaeological Institute of America, archaeology, free events, National Archaeology Day, Roman art, Roman gardens, Saturday programs
This week, several of my colleagues and I had the pleasure of welcoming to the Getty Villa the Minister of Culture and Tourism for the Hellenic Republic, Pavlos Yeroulanos. The purpose of his visit was to join our President and CEO James Cuno in signing a landmark agreement that creates a long-term partnership between Greece [...]
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The two bronze statues at the heart of the current Getty Villa exhibition Apollo from Pompeii: Investigating an Ancient Bronze—set to close September 12—may look rather familiar if you’ve traveled to Pompeii or seen it in pictures. For as you enter the ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Pompeii, you are met by Apollo [...]
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Tags: Apollo from Pompeii, bronze, bronze sculpture, Chiurazzi foundry, Luisa Fucito, Pompeii, Roman art, Roman gardens, video
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