Explore the Exhibition: Inspired by a renewed interest in classical sculpture and closer study of nature, Renaissance artists made the nude body ever more vibrant, lifelike, and central to their ...

French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the Getty Museum’s seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles—one of the world’s finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary ...

When Cassas visited Palmyra in 1785, and Vignes nearly 80 years later, they experienced an ancient site that still stirred emotions more than a dozen centuries after its downfall. Positioned at a ...

Worship of Aphrodite continued throughout the Roman period. Known as Venus, she came to symbolize Rome's imperial power. Like her Greek counterpart Aphrodite, Venus was intimately associated with love ...

Connecting Poetry & Art For centuries, art has inspired poets and poetry has inspired artists. Discover a myriad of lessons, ideas, and multimedia that explore creative expression and inquiry at the ...

Mosaics decorated domestic and public buildings across the broad expanse of the Roman Empire. Scenes drawn from mythology, daily life, nature, and spectacles in the arena enlivened interior spaces and ...

The lesson plan and downloadable materials on this page are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. • Use observation, research, and prior knowledge to describe the ...

This Incense Burner Supported by Nike was made by an unknown Greek artist in about 500–480 B.C. This work of art lives at the Getty Villa. Find out if it's on view. This small sculpture of the goddess ...

About the Donors The Stark collection comes to the Getty Center through a generous donation by the trustees of the Fran and Ray Stark Revocable Trust. The late legendary film producer Ray Stark and ...

Anthony van Dyck’s portrait of Thomas Howard was made during the artist’s first visit to London and marked the beginning of van Dyck’s brilliant international career. Thomas Howard, a prominent member ...

This volume in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s series Occasional Papers on Antiquities (OPA) includes separate examinations of Mycenaean vases and Southern Italian vases and terracottas at the Museum, a ...

Ancient Iran, historically known as Persia, was the dominant nation of western Asia for over twelve centuries, with three successive native dynasties—the Achaemenid, the Parthian, and the ...