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Uses twenty-six photographs from the J Paul Getty Museum's collection to show children the alphabet in action - and teach them some interesting ways to look at, and wonder about, works of art.

For millennia, people of all cultures have decorated the surfaces of their domestic, religious, and public buildings. Earthen architecture, in particular, has been a common ground for surface decoration, such as paintings, sculpted bas-relief, and ornamental plasterwork. This volume explores the issues associated with preserving these surfaces.

Illustrated with 250 reproductions of works of art, this book presents the 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 the Villa dei Papiri, an ancient Roman villa partially uncovered in Herculaneum.

Aimed at the lovers of architecture, photography and ancient art, this souvenir book aimes to capture the architecture and grounds of the renovated Getty Villa. Illustrated with more than seventy colour photographs, it guides the readers through the site - beginning with the cobblestone 'Roman road' through the refurbished Museum building.

Seeks to familiarize American audiences with Nicolas Lancret(1690-1743), a master of the genre of fete galante, who was a revered painter in his own time, rivalling his contemporaries Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher, and a favourite of crowned heads across Europe.

The Getty Villa in Malibu includes the only museum in the United States devoted solely to classical antiquities. This guide describes the history of the site and J Paul Getty's decision to house his growing collections in a structure based on an ancient Roman villa. It concludes with a description of the installation of the collections.

Written by the practicing archaeologists, this book presents the proceedings of the Conservation Theme at the Congress, held in Washington, DC, 22-26 June 2003. Organised according to the topics, the papers address concerns, approaches, and developments at specific sites and in broader regions.

It is often assumed that reading about the lives of artists enhances our understanding of their work. This book contains a collection of essays, by a number of respected art historians that attempt to address this relationship by looking at the life and works of such artists as Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Leonardo da Vinci.

This book is designed for conservators, scientists, and preservation architects in the field of stone conservation and will also serve as an indispensable introduction to the subject for students of art conservation and historic preservation.

Aesop was the greatest fable-maker, and many of his tales have become famous through the centuries. In this book, the readers will find one of his classic fables and four more. Young and old alike will delight when he himself introduces you to his world of storytelling.

Chronically associates artistic maturity either with transcendence, degeneration, or irrelevance. This volume looks to the non-representational arts of music, abstract painting and sculpture, and architecture for fresh insight into the juncture of aesthetics and mortality.

Presenting approximately fifty of the ninety-five "Weegee" prints in the Getty's collection, this book surveys the photographer's probing vision of life in New York. Each of which is accompanied by an introduction, a chronology, and commentary, and includes an edited transcript of a colloquium on his life and work.

During the reign of the Roman Empire, many of the town houses and rural estates in North Africa were decorated with beautiful mosaics. These works were especially widespread in Tunisia. This volume is structured around 4 themes - Nature, Theatre and Spectacle, Gods and Myths, and Technique - and features 27 mosaics from Tunisia's museums.

The regions that compose the current state of Israel and the emerging state of Palestine have yielded a wealth of archaeological evidence, from the Dead Sea Scrolls found in a cave in 1947 by a Bedouin searching for a lost sheep, to the remains of Roman camps and King Herod's luxurious palaces at the besieged city of Masada.

An introduction to this ancient library that describes the difficult history of attempts to unwind the damaged rolls. This book discusses the texts that have been deciphered and puts them in the context of literacy and Roman society of the time. It also describes the form of books in antiquity and the papyrus sheets on which they were written.

A reference on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. It delivers both a sweeping overview and an in-depth investigation from Homeric times (1000 BCE) to late Roman times (AD 400). It also includes illustrated scholarly articles that treat such topics as processions, sacrifices, libations, dedications, music, and dance.

A multivolume reference work on various aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. Providing both an overview and in depth investigation, this work covers the period from Homeric times (1000 BC) to late Roman times (AD 400). It deals with the elements of cult, such as: divination; prayer, gestures, and acts of prayer; and others.

Born in Brussels and trained by his grandmother, Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) was called "Velvet Brueghel" for his skill at painting rich and delicate textures. The story of Noah's ark provided a subject well suited to Brueghel's abilities. In his painting, a few curious villagers standbeside a stream, which foreshadows the coming deluge, and watch as Noah herds ostriches, goats, camels, and other exotic animals toward the ark. Next to a prancing white stallion, a lion and lioness chase each other's tails, while a pair of leopards frolic under the watchful eye of a bull. Brueghelhas created a delightful scene celebrating the beauty and variety of creation. This monograph takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Brueghel's fascinating paradise landscape, exploring Renaissance zoology, religious views on nature, and the culture of collecting and cataloguing animals and natural specimens. The volume is brilliantly illustrated with paintingsof landscapes and animals by artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Peter Paul Rubens, and Lucas Cranach the Elder as well as by Brueghel himself. It presents an overview of the tradition of this type of painting and discusses both the cultural context and the artist's background, crucial to understandingBrueghel's approach to nature.

In his 'History of Early Rome', the ancient historian Livy tells the story of a Roman girl named Cloelia who was taken prisoner by Larth Porsena, the king of the Etruscans. 'Brave Cloelia' tells this exciting and true story.

Edmund Teske (1911-1996) was one of the alchemists of twentieth- century American photography. Over a sixty-year period, he created a diverse body of work that explored the expressive and emotional potentials of the medium.

Celebrating twenty years of collecting photographs at the Getty Museum Photographers of Genius at the Getty spolights the genius of thirty- eight seminal photographers selected from the hundreds of artists represented in the collection.

The story of young Orpheus and his magical music. With his singing and the sound of this lyre, Orpheus puts a scary fire-breathing dragon to sleep. He helps his friends, Jason and the Argonauts, capture the Golden Fleece. Then he saves his wife from the Underworld, thus showing that anything is possible with music and talking.

The Swiss scholar Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) was one of the first great historians of culture and art. In his manuscript on the genres of Italian Renaissance painting - still unpublished in the original German and published here in English for the first time - Burckhardt assayed a transformative approach to the study of art history.

With more than 100 photographs, this book illustrates the parallel histories of railroads and photography - from a photograph of George Stephenson's locomotion, to powerful images from the American Civil War, to a mid-20th-century photograph of a train roaring by a drive-in movie theatre.

The 19 papers in this volume stem from a symposium that brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators, conservators and a practising marble sculptor to discuss varying approaches to restoration of ancient stone sculptures.

Bringing innovative scientific techniques to an aesthetic endeavour, conservators face countless decisions as they implement a course of treatment for each picture in their care. The papers in this book explore the values, assumptions and goals that shape the work of paintings conservators.

Presented in glossary format, this volume gives precise definitions of the words and phrases most frequently encountered by museum visitors in exhibition labels and texts.

Offering a transcription of the exhaustive inventory of the marquis's estate, this work also contains an essay which not only sketches Marigny's life, but also recreates the interiors and grounds where the paintings, statues and books listed in the inventory were displayed and used.

Museums worldwide face the challenge of finding non-toxic methods to control insect pests. This manual focuses on practical rather than theoretical issues in the use of oxygen-free environments. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the text, along with an index with terms linked to the text.