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The Getty Research Institute is pleased to announce that the Carlhian records are now available for research. This archive enhances the Research Institute’s holdings in the history of decorative arts. Based in Paris, the Carlhian firm acquired and produced furniture, boiseries or paneling, and wallpaper sets and sold them to clients in Europe, the United States, and [...]

 
Tags: archives, Carlhian (Firm), collectors and collecting, Decorative Arts, GRI, special collections, Treasures from the Vault

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The current exhibition Gothic Grandeur features a number of works illustrating the Apocalypse, the last book of the Bible that recounts Saint John’s vision of the end of time. This leaf comes from a manuscript of the 1200s made in Spain, which had a long tradition of producing impressive and expressive Apocalypse manuscripts. The image [...]

 
Tags: apocalypse, Gothic art, Gothic Grandeur, illuminated manuscripts, The Manuscript Files

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Did you receive a Valentine’s card today? Take a second look at those cartoon Cupids. They derive, in their own way, from ancient Greece and Rome, but might not be so cute as they first appear. Then as now, Cupid’s presence denotes passion and desire, and our word “erotic” comes from Eros, his Greek name. [...]

 
Tags: ancient art, Aphrodite, Aphrodite and the Gods of Love, Cupid, Eros, Getty Museum collection, Herakles, mythology, traveling exhibitions

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Do artworks have an inner life? You might think so when you visit a new exhibition opening today at the Getty Center. The Life of Art: Context, Collecting, and Display presents the life stories of four objects made to serve beauty and function, offering you the chance to examine them closely to understand how they [...]

 
Tags: exhibition design, French art, furniture, gallery design, interactive features, iPad, porcelain

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The Research Library at the Getty Research Institute has recently finished digitizing historic catalogs of the library of Łańcut Castle in Podkarpackie, Poland, and making them available to the U.S. Consul General in Krakow and the director of the Łańcut Castle Museum. The digitization is part of the Research Institute’s ongoing work to make items [...]

 
Tags: digital publishing, Getty Research Institute collection, Lancut Castle, Poland, Research Library

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The current exhibition Gothic Grandeur abounds with images in the margin. These charming and often humorous additions, called marginalia (Latin for “things in the margins”), were introduced to manuscript illumination during the Gothic era. In the lower border of this French Gothic devotional book, three boys play a board game; in the illuminated initial in [...]

 
Tags: games, Gothic art, Gothic Grandeur, illuminated manuscripts, medieval art, Middle Ages, The Manuscript Files

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Andy Warhol was asked by the Polaroid Corporation in 1979 to create a series of works promoting its new product—a giant 800-pound camera that produced instant large-scale color photographs almost three feet tall and two feet wide. Warhol produced ten final images, four of them self-portraits, including the one shown here, which is featured in [...]

 
Tags: Andy Warhol, Facebook, Images of the Artist, Masterpiece of the Week, photographs, Polaroids, Pop Art, self-portraits

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One of my favorite details from the current exhibition Gothic Grandeur comes from a French psalter of the early 1200s. A hallmark of Gothic art was an increasing sensitivity to the natural world, which led not only to a new physical naturalism in images, but also to a new psychological realism. Here, a malicious demon [...]

 
Tags: devils, Gothic art, Gothic Grandeur, illuminated manuscripts, medieval art, Middle Ages, The Manuscript Files

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As I was recently working on the archive of  the German art dealer Alfred Schmela, I discovered an unusual  mailing  sent by American postminimalist artist Richard Tuttle. Addressed to Alfred Schmela and his wife Monika in Düsseldorf, Germany, it was sent from New York on October 13, 1978. Laid into a handmade envelope are 27 [...]

 
Tags: Alfred Schmela, artists' letters, contemporary art, Getty Research Institute collection, modern art, Richard Tuttle, Treasures from the Vault

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