The appearance of this twentieth issue of the Getty Research Journal marks its first year as an open-access publication. Freely accessible to anyone with an internet connection in web, PDF, and e-book ...

Science and art combine in this captivating, lushly illustrated biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), one of the world’s first entomologists, who was also a botanist, naturalist, and ...

With Gilding Notes: The Traditional English Method, master gilder Judith Wetherall shares her extensive knowledge about gilded wooden objects with the field at large. These are her practical notes, ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti is recognized as one of the most creative and influential artists in the history of Western art. His most celebrated creations have become icons of world culture: the ...

The Getty Museum's education department offers courses, lectures, conversations, tours, and talks, and other programs throughout the year at both the Getty Center and the Getty Villa. We have a ...

When Cassas visited Palmyra in 1785, and Vignes nearly 80 years later, they experienced an ancient site that still stirred emotions more than a dozen centuries after its downfall. Positioned at a ...

Since writing this chapter for the 2008 edition of Introduction to Metadata, I have found that people are now more aware of the importance of rights metadata and the need to collect and share it. More ...

This exhibition focuses on the international group of writers and artists who collaborated on Dyn, a unique journal created in Mexico in the 1940s.

In 1896, Otto Wagner’s Modern Architecture shocked the European architectural community with its impassioned plea for an end to eclecticism and for a “modern” style suited to contemporary needs and ...

A major transformation of the Getty Center has taken place with the installation of 28 modern and contemporary outdoor sculptures donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum from the collection of the late ...

As well as intervening in the lives of mortals, Aphrodite had numerous affairs amongst the gods. She was married to Hephaistos (god of fire and metalworking) but was famously caught sleeping with Ares ...

In this volume, Anne Lacoste offers an ample overview of Beato’s career, tracing his development as a photographer and situating his work within the historical context of late-nineteenth-century Asia; ...