Search results for "Make King"

Acrobatic Feats of the Ancient Wine Party

Chelsea Chenelle | August 11, 2014

Wine makes a man do strange things.

Summer Camp for Art Historians

Anne Helmreich | August 1, 2014

Three summer institutes convene art historians to push digital art history forward.

3D Scanning Meets Ancient Art

Sarah Waldorf | July 31, 2014

Ancient art is the subject of a 3D scanning pilot at the Getty Museum.

New Report Visualizes Cultural History through “Big Data”

Murtha Baca and Annelisa Stephan | July 31, 2014

Using science to map art history.

A Better World through Chivalry

Chelsea Chenelle | July 29, 2014

Chivalry gets a 21st-century, multi-generational spin through these artists’ workshops.

Searching for Murmurs of History

Elana Mann | July 21, 2014

Frank Alvord Perret was a pioneering volcanologist who invented unique devices to measure geologic properties. One of these was a “geophone” that detected subterranean noises by amplifying the rumblings below the surface of the earth.

The photo below shows Perret listening to the whispers of volcanic activity in Campi Flegrei, a volcano located near Mount Vesuvius, which erupted and buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79. The archaeological site of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum served as the architectural inspiration for the Getty Villa.