Explore the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1896, Otto Wagner’s Modern Architecture shocked the European architectural community with its impassioned plea for an end to eclecticism and for a “modern” style suited to contemporary needs and ...

David Tudor was born on January 20, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began piano study at the age of six with Caroline Clinton Cook, a local teacher, and organ lessons when he was eleven years ...

Edited by N.S. Brommelle and Perry Smith 1988 Download in sections Find in WorldCat The Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties and the Getty Conservation Institute cosponsored an ...

Prostitution was widespread in nineteenth-century Paris and, as French streets filled with these women of the night, French art and literature of the period took notice. This engrossing book explains ...

Edgar Degas was one of the great pioneers of modern art, and the J. Paul Getty and Norton Simon museums are fortunate to own jointly one of his finest pastels, Waiting (L’Attente), which he made ...

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 ...

Michelangelo was one of the most creative and influential artists in the history of Western art. This exhibition explores the full range of his work as a painter, sculptor, and architect through more ...

IN AN INTRIGUING TURN LATE IN HIS CAREER, Rembrandt created a series of unusually meticulous drawings of Mughal emperors and courtiers from India. This exhibition showcases the Dutch master’s keen ...

This is the sixth volume in the Museum’s series of Occasional Papers on Antiquities. Important Roman funerary monuments in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection and other collections are examined, and ...