This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts.
SB.32 This bronze depicts a cataclysmic event from Greek mythology as the Trojan prince Paris abducts Helen, wife of the Spartan king Menelaus, thus inciting the Trojan War. In Susini's portrayal, Paris, nude except for his cap, ...
ML.746 Plate: Jean Bourdichon, Yhe Coronation ofthe Virgin, fol. 72 This ceremonious, joyful miniature shows two angels crowning the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven. God the Father offers his blessing from heaven as he displays an orb, ...
In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
59 CLAUDE MONET French, 1840—1926 Wheatstachs, Snow Fflfect, Morning, 1891 Oil on canvas 65 x 100 cm (25l/2 x 39/4 in.) At lower left, signed and dated Claude Monet '91 95.PA.63 In the fall of 1890 Monet, the acknowledged master of ...
... but not often, AS a collector, he found a middle ground between what he called super-specialization, which would not have suited a man with his broad background, and the omnivorous approach of a William Randolph Hearst.
Sure to enchant and edify all art lovers, this book is a spellbinding tour through the history of Western painting.
This is the second edition of the original guidebook to the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection. The book introduces the collection, as divided into Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings, and French decorative arts.
"[V. 1] contains all the paintings belonging to the museum as of October, 1971, plus a few of the more important acquisitions made before the manuscript was submitted to the printer five months later." -- Preface.
On October 25, 1790, “a marble statue, representing Juno, by Verhulst Anno 1680, high 6 feet 2 inches” was sold from the estate of the late Mr. Abraham Jeronimo Lopes Suasso at The Hague. (Information kindly supplied by Reinier Baarsen, ...