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
The recently acquired white-ground lekythos on display in Women and Children in Antiquity (Gallery 207) at the Getty Villa is a handsome addition to the Museum’s antiquities collection. With its narrow neck and cylindrical body, this popular type of vase was perfectly designed to hold oil. It was produced in Athens during much of the [...]
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Tags: antiquities conservation, conservation science, Getty Museum collection, Greek art, pottery, vase-painting
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If our globe had a school playground, could you spot Italy? That’s right, the one voted “most popular.” Good-looking, sharp, charismatic. Plus, a rock star in art class. This year, the popular kid turns 150. Surprisingly, the nation that for millennia has been such a powerhouse in art history has actually only existed as long [...]
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Tags: checklists, Italian art, Italian Showcase, Italy, Jacopo Carucci (Pontormo)
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Mighty sieges and human follies. The bravado of warriors and the rages and schemes of gods. The Iliad, one of the best-told epics of all time, will be heard aloud again when some 150 volunteer readers recite the ancient Greek masterpiece in a daylong marathon at the Getty Villa next Saturday, April 30. (There are [...]
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Tags: Homer, mythology, readings, spoken word, The Iliad, war
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A new exhibition opening at the Getty Villa, Apollo from Pompeii: Investigating an Ancient Bronze, marks the completion of an 18-month conservation project that developed in collaboration with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. The exhibition presents the different aspects of a Roman bronze statue of Apollo as an archer—its discovery in Pompeii in 1817 [...]
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Tags: Apollo from Pompeii, bronze, bronze sculpture, collaborations, Italy, Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Pompeii, Roman art, Sculpture
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The Art of Ancient Greek Theater closed on January 3, but one loan object from the exhibition won’t be making its way back home for a while. An Attic black-figured amphora, or storage vessel, from the James Logie Memorial Collection at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, will remain at the Villa. The earthquake [...]
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Tags: Art of Ancient Greek Theater, earthquakes, Greek art, loans, vase-painting
Scholars from as far away as England and Holland and as near as Westwood recently gathered at the Getty Villa to decipher and discuss an enigmatic ancient Greek text inscribed on a now-fragmentary lead tablet. These so-called “Getty Hexameters” date to the fourth century B.C. and are of great interest to historians of ancient Greek [...]
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Tags: ancient art, ancient Greece, Getty Hexameters, Greek art, philology
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The Agrigento Youth, a Greek sculpture carved almost exactly 2,500 years ago, is wintering at the Getty Villa. It’s the second work from the Museo Archeologico Regionale in Agrigento, Sicily, to visit the Villa on loan, following the Gela Krater, last summer’s visitor. Both come to the Museum through the Getty’s long-term collaboration with the [...]
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Tags: Agrigento Youth, Archaic sculpture, collaborations, Greek art, kouroi, loans, marble sculpture, Sicily
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