Khan Academy
Khan Academy: An Introduction to Decorative Arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Mr. Getty began acquiring European furniture in the 1930s and soon became an avid collector of European Decorative Arts. Today the J. Paul Getty Museum has an extensive collection primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries. Some of the...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: The Herculaneum Women and the Origins of Archaeology
Website for the 2007 exhibit The Herculaneum Women and the Origins of Archaeology at the Getty Museum. Describes how the discovery of three marble statues in Italy in the 1700s led to centuries of archaeological exploration in the area....
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J. Paul Getty Museum: In Focus: Still Life
Enter the J. Paul Getty Museum to visit the exhibition, Still Life. This exhibition takes a new look at still life by examining the genre as portrayed in photography. Many examples from the 19th, 20th, and even 21st centuries are shown,...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Courbet and the Modern Landscape
The Getty's multimedia-rich exploration of the life and career of French realist Gustave Courbet, whose innovative approach to landscape painting inspired many artists who came after him, including Monet, Cezanne, and Pissarro. Along...
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J. Paul Getty Museum
This world-class American museum exhibits a vast collection of international art. View online exhibitions and explore museum education resources.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Explore Art
One way to make sense of the full scope of art history is to examine the collections of a world-class museum like the Getty. At the Explore Art site, the Getty makes it easy to peruse artwork across the centuries and across all media....
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Holy Image, Sacred Ground: Icons From Sinai
A stunning exhibition, organized by the Getty in 2006, looks at the world's largest collection of Byzantine icons, from the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, located in the desert, near Mount Sinai, in Egypt. With many media-rich tools...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: La Roldana: Saint Gines: Making of a Polychrome Sculpture
Getty exhibition of the life and work of Spanish artist Luisa Roldan (1652?1706), also known as La Roldana. The exhibition focuses on Roldana's sculpture of Saint Gines de La Jara, a life-size painted wood sculpture. Includes a...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Tales in Sprinkled Gold: Japanese Lacquer
Website describes the Japanese lacquer artifacts that were on display at the J. P. Getty Museum in 2009. Photographs and words describe the pieces and the restoration process. Includes links to a slide show of the Mazarin Chest that was...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
A short biography of the artist, engraver, and architect Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi from the Getty Museum's collection. Includes a reproduction of a pen-and-ink landscape by the artist, with an accompanying illustration detail and a...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
Website for a 2008 exhibit at the Getty Museum that explains Bernini's connection to the birth of Baroque art. Includes a general overview Baroque art, a video describing how to carve marble, and pictures of some of Bernini's work.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Photographs
The curator of photographs at the Getty Museum helps to explain the fine art component behind photography giving it the validity it deserves.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts From Belgium and the Netherlands
Highlights from an exhibition of painted manuscripts from the late Middle Ages. Find examples of a range of works from the time, along with audio files of commentaries from the exhibition's curators.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889
Displays and explains James Ensor's painting, Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889. Also gives the history of the painting. Accompanied by its provenance, exhibitions it was in, a bibliography, a lesson plan for K-2, and audio recordings...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Carvers and Collections: Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems
Online exhibition site includes video demonstration of gem-carving techniques, side-by-side comparison of intaglios and cameos, and examples of gemstones carved by ancient Greeks, some of which have been set into jewelry.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Art of the Ancient Greek Theater
Explore an exhibition of art (sculptures and painted vases) that takes Greek drama as its subject shows the many different ways that Greek visual artists interpreted the dramatic arts in their work. Find a click-through slideshow of art...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Imagining the Past in France: 1250 1500
View highlights from an exhibition of medieval French manuscripts, whose subjects range from the religious, to the courtly, to the historical. See a slideshow (with narration) of featured works from the exhibition and sample three...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminating the Renaissance
Through four different "looking closer" tools you can get an in-depth discovery of a well-known manuscript from the Renaissance.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture
This collection focuses on Leonardo's sculpture, which, because none of his sculptural works have either survived or were executed, are realized through preparatory drawings and the three-dimensional works of related artists....
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Writing About Art: Comparing Portraits
Students will compare and contrast an academic and an Impressionist portrait through a writing exercise and discussion. Each student will then write a formal commission letter to one of the artists, requesting a portrait. Adaptations for...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Rubens and Brueghel
An exhibition, organized by the Getty in 2006, that looks at the work of two seventeenth-century giants of Flemish art, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Using a number of technical tools available to the museum's...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa
View a selection of mosaics from the national museums of Tunisia of Roman mosaics.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Peter Paul Rubens
This museum site offers a short biography of Peter Paul Rubens.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Jacques Louis David
Brief description of the Jacques-Louis David's life and artistic influences, with links to more information on six of David's works in the Getty's collection. Discusses the classical influences seen in the artist's work and his role in...