Six Questions for Art Detective Victoria Reed
What does a provenance researcher do? And how does she do it?
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What Makes an Artist Great? Curator Scott Schaefer on Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer is a beloved artist. Is he also a great one?
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Write the Opening Line to Vermeer’s “Lady in Blue”
What do you think the first line of this letter might say? Share your ideas.
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A Call to Arms! Heraldry in Renaissance Florence (And a Mystery You Can Help Solve)
A horse, a salmon, lizards, and the cross of Calvary—learn to decipher coats of arms!
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Dogs Behaving Badly
Bad dog! Jumping, barking, pulling, hogging, guarding, as captured in art.
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Boo! Don’t Look Now, But I See a Ghost
Mumler’s “spirit photographs” claimed to bring back spirits of the dearly departed.
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“The Last Days of Pompeii” and the Archaeology of Imagination
The stories we weave around the ruins and remains of Pompeii say much about ourselves.
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Physiognomy, The Beautiful Pseudoscience
How did this dubious science influence European art and culture?
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Victims of Soicumstance: My Automatic Visual Reactions to Messerschmidt
Big, bald, and menacing: reactions to Messerschmidt’s A Hypocrite and a Slanderer.
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We Answer Your Questions for Ask-a-Curator Day
Questions answered on social media!
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Fragonard’s “Fantasy Portrait” of Dashing French Duke on Temporary Loan
A dashing portrait of an 18th-century duke by Fragonard visits the Getty.
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It Takes a Village: Understanding Spanish American Colonial Art from the Ground Up
International scholars investigate the materials used in Spanish American colonial art.
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