This handbook addresses three areas of concern for the museum administrator concerning the protection of historic buildings, monuments, and archaeological sites located in seismic areas. It proposes ...

Your gift to Getty in support of the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund is fully tax-deductible. If you would like to discuss a major gift to the fund, please contact Emily Cregg, Senior Development ...

This two-day symposium, part of the Panel Paintings Initiative and hosted by the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, highlighted recent developments in ...

With notes and essays by Murtha Baca, Francesca Cappelletti, Helen Glanville, and Nuria Rodríguez Ortega ...

This first volume in the Occasional Papers on Antiquities subseries on ancient portraits presents a detailed examination and analysis by Sheldon Nodelman of a portrait of Brutus. Flemming Johansen ...

The Villa dei Papiri was a sumptuous private residence on the Bay of Naples, just outside the Roman town of Herculaneum. Deeply buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, it was rediscovered ...

The Group Portraiture of Holland shows how artists such as Rembrandt and Frans Hals radically altered the relationship of the beholder to the work of art. Alois Riegl’s masterly study has become a ...

Predrag Gavrilović, William S. Ginnell, Veronika Sendova, and Lazar Šumanov Between the ninth and fourteenth century, hundreds of architecturally exquisite Byzantine churches were built in the area ...

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 function of the painted wooden object ranges from the practical to the profound. These objects may perform utilitarian tasks, convey artistic whimsy, connote noble aspirations, and embody the ...

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 ...

Literature in this bibliography was compiled over the past decade at the Getty Conservation Institute as a part of the TERRA project. The research component of this project involved the review of a ...