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 ...

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 ...

While the large-scale figural works of Gustave Courbet’s early to mid-career—pictures such as Burial at Ornans, The Stonebreakers, and The Studio of the Painter—are of signal importance to the history ...

Pre-requisites: For teachers with any level of proficiency in teaching with works of art, and students of all skill levels. This curriculum is intended to provide students and teachers with the tools ...

As well as intervening in the lives of mortals, Aphrodite had numerous affairs amongst the gods. She was married to Hephaistos (god of fire and metalworking) but was famously caught sleeping with Ares ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a part of the J. Paul Getty Trust based in the city of Los Angeles, the Getty Research Institute (GRI) is an international center with an extensive library, special collections, array of programs, ...

A conservation plan for the Giancarlo de Carlo buildings at the Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo in Italy.

This extraordinary collection of rare books and prints on gastronomy from the 15th through the 20th centuries offers unique insight into the visual culture of food. The elaborate art of culinary ...

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 ...

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