Search results for ",atU"

David Hockney in the Promised Land

Clare Kunny | January 14, 2014

Why is vibrant color, like green, characteristic of Hockney’s landscapes of Northern England?

Getty Voices: Aztec Idols, Explorers, and Egyptomania

Peter Bonfitto | January 13, 2014

How did a 19th century scholar misidentify an Aztec sculpture as Egyptian?

A Medieval Soap Opera

Elizabeth Morrison and Bryan Keene | January 7, 2014

Falling in love in the Middle Ages was more of a roller-coaster ride than today’s soap operas.

Giorgio Vasari’s Monumental Painting “Last Supper” Reemerges After Nearly 50 Years

Melissa Abraham | December 23, 2013

For the first time in 47 years, the five wooden panels that make up Giorgio Vasari’s “Last Supper” are joined together again to make the artwork whole.

Form versus Function: Rare Journals Acquired by the Getty Research Institute

Kim Sadler | December 19, 2013

New acquisitions provide researchers crucial context for two key international art movements—Jugendstil and Concrete Art.

Bigger Than Ourselves: Episcopal Priest Dr. Gwynne Guibord on Finding the Sacred through Art

Annelisa Stephan | December 11, 2013

“All space, all beings, and all creation is sacred—but we don’t walk through life seeing it that way. Art offers a transition, helping us leave behind the secular world and move into a sacred place.”