art history

Experience Death Salon Getty Villa

Audio, photos, and social media highlights from Death Salon Getty Villa.

Annelisa Stephan | April 27, 2015

Eating chocolate, from Moctezuma to Marie-Antoinette.

Maite Gomez-Rejón | February 12, 2015

Join us to build a better history of L.A. art through Wikipedia.

Sarah Sherman | February 4, 2015

The improbable story of the invention of lithography.

Sarah Zabrodski | January 29, 2015

The battle that launched the culture clash of World War I.

Take this quiz to learn how much you *really* know about the rainbow.

Annelisa Stephan | December 4, 2014

A newly catalogued archive sheds light on how art history was written in Germany after the war.

A look back at the Getty Foundation’s 30 years of support for study and preservation of the visual arts.

Deborah Marrow | October 27, 2014

Before her ill-fated end, Marie-Antoinette was a peerless patron of the decorative arts.

Philippe Halbert | October 16, 2014

The vast archives of the Getty Research Institute contain many stories yet untold.

Help us solve an art-historical mystery.

“For all of us, the trip was revelatory on many levels.”