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European Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Catherine Hess
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-02-19 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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The Getty Museum’s collection of postclassical European glass represents a well-defined chapter within the history of the medium. These objects—which range
Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Gillian Wilson
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-07 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gill
Painting on Light
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Barbara Butts
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-01 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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The names Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein the Younger evoke the dazzling accomplishments of Renaissance panel painting and printmaking, but they may not summon
The Arts of Fire
Language: en
Pages: 186
Authors: Catherine Hess
Categories: Art, Islamic
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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Students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance easily fall under the spell of its achievements: its self-confident humanism, its groundbreaking scientific inn
Summary Catalogue of European Sculpture in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Language: en
Pages: 90
Authors: Peter Fusco
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-08 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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Although one of the newer collections in the Getty Museum, sculpture occupies an important place in the Museum’s acquisition efforts. For the first time, the