The earliest photographs—often associated with small, faded, sepia-toned images—may seem to belong to a bygone era, but many of the conventions established during photography’s earliest years persist ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti is recognized as one of the most creative and influential artists in the history of Western art. His most celebrated creations have become icons of world culture: the ...

The GCI's Earthen Architecture Initiative (EAI) aims to further the conservation of earthen architecture through international activities focusing on training, research, planning and implementation, ...

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During the early 1980s, Ritts became part of a coterie of Los Angeles artists who photographed celebrities for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. Ritts's antiglamour style of portraiture made ...

Self-Portrait as Midas was sculpted by French artist Jean-Joseph Carriès around 1885. This work of art lives at the Getty Center. Find out if it's on view. This sculpture of a man with great big ears ...

A kind of encyclopedia of animals, the bestiary was among the most popular illuminated texts in northern Europe during the Middle Ages (about 500–1500). Because medieval Christians understood every ...

The Conservation Guest Scholars Program provides opportunities for professionals to pursue research on topics that bring new knowledge and fresh perspectives to the field of conservation. Guest ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of outstanding ...

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 ...

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The colorful myths and legends of Greco-Roman antiquity have fired the imaginations of generations of European draftsmen, testing their abilities to represent complex narratives through graphic means.