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Paintings

Rosso in Hollywood
Allegory of Salvation with the Virgin and Christ Child, St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist and Two Angels, about 1521, Rosso Fiorentino Giovanni Battista di Jacopo. Oil on panel, 63 1/2 × 47 in. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert T. Kalmus (54.6). Image: www.lacma.org

Rosso in Hollywood

What two pioneers of color movies saw in a 16th-century painting.

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| May 12, 2020

The Artist’s View through the Window
Untitled, 2002, Gregory Crewdson. Chromogenic print, 48 1/16 × 59 13/16 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2012.81. Gift of Trish and Jan de Bont. © Gregory Crewdson

The Artist’s View through the Window

How artists have been inspired by a glimpse outside.

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| April 30, 2020

A View of J. Paul Getty
Portrait of J. Paul Getty, about 1970, Robert Oliver Skemp. Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 82.9 cm (35 5/8 × 32 5/8 in.). The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003.96. ©Estate of Robert Oliver Skemp.

A View of J. Paul Getty

What we learned after researching portraits of the collector and businessman.

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| December 13, 2019