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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In the seventeenth century, the Persian city of Isfahan was a crossroads of international trade and diplomacy. Manuscript paintings produced within the city’s various cultural, religious, and ethnic ...

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 drawings Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669) made of Mughal emperors, princes, and courtiers mark a watershed moment in his artistic development, when the Dutch master responded to art of a ...

As a response to this problem, the Getty Conservation Institute, in collaboration with a number of artists' estates, foundations and studios, is implementing a system of paint coupons for outdoor ...