This morning we launched Getty Voices, a new social media project on The Iris led by a different member of the Getty community every week. More»
Our new Getty Voices series kicks off with a weeklong view into one of the Getty Conservation Institute’s international field projects. More»
Why the manuscript illuminations in Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance really rock. More»
Notes and video excerpts from the Getty’s participation in the World Economic Forum. More»
After much anticipation, the Robert Mapplethorpe archive is now available at the Getty Research Institute. More»
Featuring over 2,000 newly digitized catalogs, a new database will revolutionize Nazi-era art research. More»
These amazingly detailed prints depict the successful military campaign of the Qianlong Emperor against Nepalese warriors. More»
Heraldry is a fascinating and complex system by which coats of arms are devised and decoded. My familial arms—yes, my family has a coat of arms, and yours may have too—are composed of an intricate grouping of objects, including a… More»
The Panel Paintings Initiative is training the next generation of conservators of paintings on wood panels, and including professionals from Eastern Europe is a high priority. In this post, Polish conservator Aleksandra Hola describes her experience with the program. For… More»
When we first started planning for the design of Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance in the fall of 2011, we faced a major challenge: how to deliver the wealth of information we wanted to convey about the artworks…. More»
Remarkably realistic for medieval illuminated beasts, which were often fabulous admixtures of fantasy and fur. The unicorn is clearly drawn from life, for example.