The Getty Villa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Getty Villa write by Marion True. This book was released on 2005. The Getty Villa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The original Getty Museum, housed in a replica of a Roman Villa on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is one of Los Angeles's most treasured landmarks. Closed for almost ten years while renovations were made to the building and the site itself was transformed into a center for the study of antiquities and conservation, the Getty Villa is now set to open late in 2005. The Getty Villa is a lively history of the Getty Museum, its renowned antiquities collections, and its growth from a small museum in a ranch house in Malibu to its first home in a building designed to replicate what we know of the Villa dei Papiri, an ancient Roman villa partially uncovered in Herculaneum. Most engagingly, this book records the ten-year adventure in reconfiguring a beautiful, but topographically challenging, site into one that could continue to accommodate the splendid Museum building and also provide for an outdoor theater, laboratories for conservation work and research, offices for staff and visiting scholars, and an education program for adults and children. This is a story of architectural imagination, geographical challenges, and legal hurdles, all of which have resulted in a truly unique and beautiful site. The story is an enlightening and rewarding one for anyone interested in architecture and in the difficulties posed by building on a grand scale in the twenty-first century. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book includes 250 reproductions of works of art, photographs of both the old and the new Getty Museum, site plans, and architectural elevations.
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections write by John Walsh. This book was released on 1997-12-04. The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty
The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook
The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook write by W. R. Valentiner. This book was released on 1956-01-01. The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Roman Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Roman Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum write by Jiří Frel. This book was released on 1987-04-30. Roman Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Portraits, sometimes crude in their realism or gripping in the sense of a living person, were one of the great achievements of Roman Art. The collection of one hundred portraits in the Getty Museum is one of the largest in the world. Dr. Frel surveys the history of Roman portrait art in an often controversial introduction on the purpose of portraits in Roman life and society, continuing his arguments through the catalogue analyses of the individual pieces. The occasion for the book was a loan exhibition of the portraits to the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa. This lavishly illustrated book presents a discussion of the principal views and the uses of the portrait in ancient times. The photographs include unusual views of the back and profiles of many portraits to show the care with which they were created and their damages and reworking over the centuries. The catalogue also includes five portraits that are late evocations of the antique and outright forgeries.
Greeks on the Black Sea
Greeks on the Black Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greeks on the Black Sea write by Anna A. Trofimova. This book was released on 2007. Greeks on the Black Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ancient Greeks traveled widely by sea and founded colonies in far-flung locations. On the north coast of the Black Sea were a number of such Greek settlements, places where the Greeks made contact with the local Scythian population. Greek goods were traded extensively throughout the region, and many of these often-luxurious articles eventually made their way into tombs. From its wealth of such Greek finds from the Black Sea, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has lent some 175 Greek objects to an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa. This richly illustrated catalogue to the exhibition presents nine essays on the archaeology of the northern Black Sea region and its history, culture, and art, including sculpture, pottery, gems, and jewelry. Written by curators at the State Hermitage Museum, Greeks on the Black Sea presents an intriguing world at once Greek and barbarian.
