French painter Gustave Caillebotte's interest in male subjects sharply distinguishes him from his Impressionist peers. Overwhelmingly, he observed and depicted the men in his life—including his ...

Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the ancient Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum was rediscovered in the 1750s and has yielded rare works of art and papyrus scrolls. This exhibition ...

Petra, Angkor, Copan, Venice, Lascaux, Easter Island—all are examples of irreplaceable cultural heritage built in stone and now slowly disappearing. In 1996 the Getty Conservation Institute published ...

Animals tumble, soar, and race through the pages of the bestiary, a popular type of medieval book describing the beasts of the world. Abounding with vibrant and fascinating images, the bestiary ...

Harry Shunk (left) and János Kender at a dinner for artist Lucio Fontana at La Coupole in Montparnasse, Paris, 1961 (detail). The Getty Research Institute, 2014.R.20. Photo: Shunk-Kender The German ...

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Foundation Deposit of Xerxes (The Daiva Inscription), Achaemenid, 486–465 BC.Limestone. Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, A24120. The Persian king Cyrus II, “the Great” ...

The Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes is intended for practicing photograph conservators, curators, art historians, archivists, library professionals, and anyone responsible for ...

The ninth triennial meeting of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM), organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP) of ...

Edme Bouchardon’s street peddlers convey the humanity of an eighteenth-century city: vendors calling out their wares and services, singing musicians accompanied by portable instruments, and other ...

Nefertari, the favorite queen of Rameses II, was buried about 3,200 years ago in the most exquisitely decorated tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Queens. Discovered in 1904 by Italian explorer Ernesto ...

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder were the two most famous painters in Antwerp. They were also close friends and frequent collaborators, who ...