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 [...]
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Tags: digital publishing, Getty Research Institute collection, Lancut Castle, Poland, Research Library
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
The Getty Conservation Institute recently completed the first training course for MOSAIKON, an ambitious collaboration dedicated to improving the conservation and maintenance of ancient mosaics in the Mediterranean region. Begun in 2008, MOSAIKON is a partnership between the Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, ICCROM (the International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration [...]
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Tags: GCI, heritage conservation, mosaics, mosaics conservation, MOSAIKON, stone conservation
Is there any consensus about the definition and field of “Latin American art”? This question was the subject of discussion by a group of international art historians and curators at a recent two-part, two-continent symposium, Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century. The event began in L.A. in March and [...]
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Tags: Latin America, Latin American art, MOLAA, Peru, Q&A, scholarship, symposium
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
During my work as a Multicultural Undergraduate Intern at the Getty this summer, I was invited to join colleagues from the Getty Research Institute on a visit to artist Thomas Demand’s studio in Culver City. It was a memorable look at his unique process. Demand is a contemporary artist from Germany who works mainly in [...]
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Tags: contemporary art, Getty scholars, photographs, Scholars Program, Thomas Demand, video art
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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Tags: ancient Greece, antiquities conservation, Greek art
In 1949, self-taught photographer Lucien Hervé (1910–2007) traveled from Paris to Marseille to see Unité d’habitation, a housing complex by architect Le Corbusier. Awed by the groundbreaking modern design, Hervé took 650 photographs of it in a single day. When he returned, he mailed them to Le Corbusier. “You have the soul of an architect,” [...]
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Tags: abstract art, architectural photographs, art books, books, Getty Research Institute collection, GRI, Jacques Sbriglio, Le Corbusier, Lucien Hervé, photographs
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