Challenge your students to discover how "traditional" works of art in the Getty Museum's collection have inspired and informed contemporary artists.

Lyonel Feininger took up the camera at the age of 58 in fall 1928. Despite his early skepticism about this "mechanical" medium, the painter was inspired by the enthusiasm of his sons Andreas and ...

These symposium proceedings mark the culmination of the first phase of the Getty Conservation Institute's collaborative project with the State Bureau of Cultural Relics of the People's Republic of ...

Alfred Stieglitz, The Hand of Man, 1902, Gelatin silver print , c. 1933, 8.3 x 11.3 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes is intended ...

At the dawn of the modern era in Europe, there was a keen interest in the precise rendering of the natural world, as evidenced by the landscapes and still lifes of the great Flemish artist Jan ...

Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (1721–circa 1793) emerges today as one of the more fascinating and influential architects of the French Enlightenment. Much admired by his contemporaries for his large ...

The education department seeks to inspire all of our audiences to engage with our collection and exhibitions through programs and resources at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa museums. This free ...

The nude—the unclothed or partially clothed human body—has been featured in European art for millennia. After 1400, with the waning of the Middle Ages, artists depicted nudes as increasingly ...

The analysis of the four historic sites featured in this publication—Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site in Canada, Chaco Culture National Historical Park in the United States, ...

Ed Ruscha's art is characterized by graphic simplicity, playful humor, and a keen interest in the vernacular as it applies to both language and architecture. This exhibition explores his photography, ...

The Dutch history painter Joachim Wtewael is widely admired for his astonishing small paintings on copper. The Getty Museum’s Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan is one of his finest works in this ...

Since writing this chapter for the 2008 edition of Introduction to Metadata, I have found that people are now more aware of the importance of rights metadata and the need to collect and share it. More ...