Böcker utgivna av Getty Trust Publications

"The essays by Marina Garone Gravier, Diana Magaloni Kerpel, and Juan M. Ossio A. were translated by Marisol Wohl."

"In this work of original scholarship, Peter Heslin argues that paintings of the Trojan War, public and private, were a collective visual resource for selected poems by Virgil, Horace, and Propertius; in so doing, he reconstructs a world in which Augustan-era art served as inspiration for some of the greatest works of Roman literature"--Provided b

"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Thames & Hudson Ltd."--Title page verso.

Offers an illustrated review of the work of photographer Jo Ann Callis. This volume attests to Callis' singular vision of the delicate boundary between the world within and the world without.

A multivolume reference on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. It includes illustrated scholarly articles in English, French, Italian, and German that treat such topics as processions, sacrifices, libations, dedications, purification, initiation, divination, prayer, asylum, maledictions, banquets, music, and dance.

Rather than offering a chronological discussion, this book presents early Netherlandish paintings as individual objects that have confronted scholars with countless interpretive challenges. Divided into three parts, it advances the scholarly dialogue about an important period in European art, by assembling scholarly research in the field.

In 1984 the Getty Museum acquired a collection of Italian Renaissance majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware. This volume catalogues this collection of 45 objects spanning 400 years, including a pair of 18th-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes and a tabletop with hunting scenes.

The Getty Seismic Adobe Project set out to identify and evaluate methods for the seismic protection of historical and culturally significant Adobe structures. This is a description of the design, experimental procedures and results of the project.

A practical manual for the microscopic analysis of paint, coatings, fibres and adhesives - materials found in works of art.

Presents works of two pioneering postwar architects. This volume features an array of images, and unveils authors architectural practice. It also includes ideas about the relationship of architecture and environment.

Features the golden age of French printmaking. This catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. It studies how prints were collected and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries.

Offers an overview of the Getty's collections and provides a history of the museum and its founder. This volume features treasures of the ancient world and medieval manuscripts, impressionist paintings, and American photographs. It also offers an indispensable look at Getty Villa in Malibu and Getty Center on a hilltop in Brentwood.

Lawrence Alloway was a key figure in the development of modern art in Europe and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. This title offers analysis of the multiple facets of Alloway's life and career, exploring his formative influence on the disciplines of art history, art criticism, and museum studies. It also includes nine essays in this volume.

Focusing on a specific theme or genre spanning the history of the medium from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this title traces the relationship between animal representation and the possibilities presented by rapid advancements in camera and film technologies.

Polychrome sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the making and meaning of European medieval and Baroque painted wood sculpture. The author played a pioneering role in combining the rigorous scientific analysis of materials with a fuller understanding of form and function.

Offers an integrated contextual analysis of artifacts fashioned from a wide variety of luxury materials. This volume address a broad range of luxury goods, such as intaglios, cameos, vessels, and statuettes, providing a full and multifaceted account of luxury in the ancient world. It also explores the ideologies and uses of the luxury arts.

"Offers a translation and summary of the fifteenth-century Flemish illuminated manuscript, The Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies, along with a complete reproduction of the book's illustrations, and provides a discussion of its historical, cultural, and artistic contexts"--Provided by publisher.

"Fifteen essays address the cultural artifacts of ancient Rome through the lens of memory studies, bringing together such diverse disciplines as art and archeology, history, religion, literature, sociology, media studies, and neuroscience"--Provided by publisher.

The six scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado's collection of Remish paintings. This illustrated volume provides fresh insight into the history of the Eucharist series of paintings and tapestries and attests to Rubens' exhilarating art.

A discussion of the designs by Antonio Asprucci for the redecoration of the Borghese Palace as a semi-public museum. The author shows that the new designs created a unified space for the Count's extensive collection of Greek and Roman antique and "modern" sculpture.

Much of how WWI is understood today is rooted in the artistic depictions of the brutal violence and extensive destruction that marked the conflict. This book examines how the physical and psychological devastation of the war altered the course of 20th-century artistic Modernism.

The history of art is inseparable from the history of colour. This book takes readers across the globe and over the centuries on a tour through the history of color in art. It aims to uncover the origins and science of colour. It is illustrated in full colour throughout with 166 major works of art.

In the summer of 1874, Edouard Manet (1832-1883) and Claude Monet (1840-1926), two outstanding painters of the nascent Impressionist movement, spent their holidays together in Argenteuil on the Seine River. Their growing friendship is expressed in their artwork. This book offers a look at one of the defining images of the Impressionist movement.

A guide to the materials used in architecture during the past century, as well as tips on building repair and restoration. With more than 200 illustrations, including a full-color photographic essay, it focuses on the history and conservation of modern building materials.

With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history - even the emergence of the modern category of fine art - was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.

In January 1839, photography was announced to the world. Two years prior, a young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. This book explores the connections between photography and the monarchy through Victoria's embrace of the new medium and her portrayal through the lens.

A reference on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals encompassing the period from 1000 BC to AD 400. It features illustrated articles that address topics such as processions, sacrifices, libation, purification, consecration/foundation rites, heroization and apotheosis, dance, music, divination, prayer, and magic.

A fresh consideration of the images of saints and martyrs Rubens created for the churches of Flanders and the Holy Roman Empire that offers a masterly demonstration of Rubens' achievements, liberating their message from the secular misunderstandings of the post-religious age and showing them in their intended light.