The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection - 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 Handbook of the Antiquities Collection write by J. Paul Getty Museum. This book was released on 2010. The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The J. Paul Getty Museum's antiquities collection contains objects spanning thousands of years, from Preclassical times as far back as the third millennium B.C. through A.D. 600, encompassing Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, Greek, Etruscan, South Italian, Roman, and Romano-Egyptian artifacts. The collection at the Getty Villa includes one of the finest assemblages of ancient Greek vases in the United States; monumental marble sculptures and diminutive bronzes; Greek and Roman gems; and Hellenistic silverware, jewelry, and glass. In lively prose accompanied by full-color photographs of nearly two hundred objects, this handbook presents the most important pieces in the collection.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
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 The J. Paul Getty Museum write by J. Paul Getty Museum. This book was released on 2007. The J. Paul Getty Museum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
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 J. Paul Getty Museum. This book was released on 1954. The J. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection
The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection - 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 Handbook of the Collection write by J. Paul Getty Museum. This book was released on 2015-05-01. The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
