J. Paul Getty Museum

Contains illustrations of prophetic paintings accompanied by selections from the apocalyptic Revelation of St. John the Divine and from The Visions of Tondal.

Visions of the Millennium

Alpha and Omega

Barbara Maria Stafford

Frances Terpak

Isotta Poggi

Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities

Exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 13 November 2001 to 3 February 2002.

From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen

Devices of Wonder

This collection of papers presents the results of a symposium held at the Getty Museum in February 1990. Recent archaeological excavations provide evidence that Cyprus had a great cultural and economic importance during the Bronze Age. The contributors discuss aspects of the Bronze Age as they relate to Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean. Topics include the economy of the period, its basis in the exploitation of metals and stone, Cyprus’s international influence on trade, and religion and evidence of that influence though interpretation of archaeological sites and artifacts.

Chalcolithic Cyprus

Norman Neuerburg

A Companion to the Visit of the J. Paul Getty Museum Building : a Descriptive and Explanatory Guide to the Re-created Ancient Roman Villa of the Papyri Built at the Wishes of J. Paul Getty in Malibu, California, 1970-1974

Herculaneum to Malibu

Paul Cézanne

Carol M. Armstrong

In the last years of his life, Paul Cezanne produced a stunning series of watercolours, many of them still lifes. Still Life with Blue Pot is one of these late masterpieces; it is now in the collection of the Getty Museum. In Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors, Carol Armstrong places this great painting within the context of Cezanne's artistic and psychological development and of the history of the genre of still life in France. Still life - like the medium of watercolour - was traditionally considered to be low in the hierarchy of French academic painting. watercolours that contained echoes of grand landscapes and even historical paintings in the manner of Poussin - the highest of classical art forms. In so doing, he charged his still lifes with new meanings; both in terms of his own notoriously difficult personality and in the way he used the genre to explore the very process of looking at, and creating, art. Carol Armstrong's study - published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum from October 12, 2004 to January 2, 2005 - is a fascinating exploration of the brilliant watercolour paintings that brought Cezanne's career to a complex, and triumphant, conclusion. The book includes new photographic studies of the Getty's painting that allow the reader to encounter this great watercolour as never before - in its full richness and detail.

Still Life in Watercolors

Cézanne in the Studio

Roman Funerary Monuments in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Manuel Alvarez Bravo created works of art displaying an array of styles and themes. This volume contains 50 images with extended commentaries on each. There is also a transcript of a symposium on Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Jeffrey Spier

Ancient Gems and Finger Rings catalogues the J. Paul Getty Museum's comprehensive and important collection of Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Near Eastern gems. Most of these objects have never before been published, making this catalogue essential for the scholar. The volume is fully and richly illustrated—each entry includes photographs of the gem and its impression as well as a profile drawing. Where pertinent, bibliographic references and comparative material are cited.

Catalogue of the Collection

Ancient Gems and Finger Rings

Denise Allen

The J. Paul Getty Museum's paintings collection ranges from the fourteenth to the end of the nineteenth century. Among the finest examples of early Renaissance painting are the Madonna and Child by the Master of Saint Cecilia, Masaccio's Saint Andrew, and Gentile da Fabriano's richly painted Coronation of the Virgin. Typical of the High Renaissance are Andrea Mantegna's splendid Adoration of the Magi and Fra Bartolommeo's Rest on the Flight into Egypt. The art of the Netherlands in its Golden Age is represented by Jan Brueghel's much-loved painting The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark and by The Return from War, which he painted with Peter Paul Rubens, as well as a newly acquired and magnificent landscape by Hobberma. Rembrandt's Abduction of Europa, and Jan Steen's Drawing Lesson. Painting in France ranges from recently accessioned works by Poussin, Fragonard, and Lancret, through the Impressionism of Monet's seminal Sunrise and his Rowen Cathedral, while the modern age is exemplified by the Irises of Vincent van Gogh, Fernand Khnopff's Jeanne Kefer, and Cezanne's Still Life with Apples.

Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Thomas Kren

This is a lavishly illustrated survey of the J. Paul Getty's collection of illuminated manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands.

Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Dorothea Lange

Judith Keller

Dorothea Lange is chiefly renowned for her social documentary work in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Judith Keller discusses several of her pictures held by the Getty Museum and includes an edited transcript of a colloquium on Lange and a chronicle of her life in this illustrated study.

This book is a revised and fully updated guide to major objects in the collections at the Getty. This gorgeous new edition of The J Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection features over 350 of the museum's most beloved objects. Updated to include numerous exciting new acquisitions-from the Gillion manuscript to Gauguin's Arii Matamoe (The Royal End), from J M W Turner's Modern Rome to Robert Mapplethorpe's famous Self Portrait-the handbook presents an overview of the Getty's world-renowned collections and provides a history of the museum and its famous founder. From treasures of the ancient world and medieval manuscripts to Renaissance drawings, French furniture, Impressionist paintings, iconic American photographs, and much more, the handbook offers an indispensable look at both the magnificently reimagined Getty Villa in Malibu and the dazzling Getty Center on a hilltop in Brentwood. Whether a regular visitor to the two sites or someone who hasn't yet made the trip, this richly illustrated and beautifully redesigned volume is a must-have for any art lover.

Eighth Edition

The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection

Gordon Baldwin

Eugène Atget

Publisher Fact Sheet Featuring details of often-inconspicuous buildings, side streets, cul-de-sacs, & public sculptures in his beloved Paris. Includes commentary on each image.

Mark Greenberg

This revised and updated J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections includes many major objects that recently have been added to the collections, as well as the more familiar masterpieces frequent visitors have become acquainted with over the years from the antiquities, drawings, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, and sculpture and decorative arts holdings. Among the notable new accessions is a major collection of modern and contemporary sculpture, a 2005 gift from the Fran and Ray Stark Trust. Moreover, the new edition of the Handbook marks the historic moment at which the Museum commences operating on two sites simultaneously—the dazzling Getty Center on a hilltop in Brentwood and the magnificently reimagined Getty Villa in Malibu, devoted to Western antiquities. Readers who have not been among the millions of visitors to the two sites will find this Handbook an inducement for paying a visit; for those who have seen the collections, it will help them recall the experience and enrich their recollection.

Handbook of the Collections

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Alex Potts

Vinzenz Brinkmann

Jan Stubbe Ostergaard

Marco Collareta

There has been a persistent tradition of enlivening sculptures with color. This book presents five essays on polychromy in classical Greek through contemporary sculpture, along with discussions of over 40 extraordinary polychrome sculptures.

Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present

The Color of Life

Vols. include an "acquisitions supplement" listing the Museum's acquisitions for the preceding year.

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

August Sander

Claudia Bohn-Spector

Including an edited transcription of a colloquium on Sander's life and work, this title contains plates selected from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. Sander's works exemplify the contradictory nature of early 20th century Germany.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Keith F. Davis

Ray K. Metzker

Ju Zugazagoitia

Henry Art Gallery

Keith Davis explores the roots of Metzker's innovative vision, from his early interest in photojournalism through his studies at Chicago's Institute of Design in the 1950s, and his bold innovations of the 1960s and 1970s.

The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker

Tobi Levenberg Kaplan

Lisa Lyons

"The J. Paul Getty Museum decided to address these compelling questions by inviting eleven outstanding Los Angeles-area artists to explore the Getty Center in search of points of departure for their own work.".

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