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J. Paul Getty Museum: The Getty Research Institute: Getty Vocabularies
This resource provides terminology for art, architecture, materila culture, and bibliographical information in order to help catalogers and researchers enhance databases and websites.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Explore Art: Thomas Gainsborough
Information about the artist and about four portraits by Gainsborough on display at the Getty.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: The Getty Conservation Institute
A non-profit organization that focuses its efforts in education and promotion of conservation through critical thinking, research, and innovation. The Getty Conservation Institute works ceaselessly on projects to conserve the legacy of...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Getty Vocabularies Editorial Guidelines
These documents contain information about editorial practice for the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), and the Cultural Objects Name Authority...
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Red Figured Gela Krater
Superb example of red-figured vase depicting a favorite subject of Greek artists, a battle scene.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Paris: Life and Luxury
Exhibition focuses on the French rococo style of pre-Revolutionary France during the reign of Louis XV.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky
Here you will find a chronological account of the life and work of Russian artist Lazar Markovich Lissitzky-better known as El Lissitzky.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Getty Exhibitions: Shaping the Great City
Cities in Central Europe were required to expand their infrastructure due to industrialization and an increase in the need for workers. This exhibit details and illustrates the shift and growth through modern architecture of the era.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Dorothea Lange Curriculum
An incredible Dorothea Lange resource, this site has it all. It contains lesson plans, an image bank, a biography, a timeline, and even a set of guidelines for discussing photography.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts Curriculum
An extremely well put together site full of information about the decorative arts, specifically the French decorative arts from about 1660 to 1790. Contains history, lesson plans, and even an image bank.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Art and Language Lesson Plans
Find two dozen lesson plans developed by California teachers that use pieces from the Getty's collection as source material for interdisciplinary approaches to arts and language arts learning.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Looking at Portraits Curriculum
A really great site to explore for teachers and students. It contains lesson plans, discussion questions, as well as an image bank.
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Khan Academy: Making a Spanish Polychrome Sculpture: Saint Gines De La Jara
This article focuses on conservators, scientists, and art historians at the J. Paul Getty Museum who undertook a multifaceted approach to investigate the design and construction process of the polychrome sculpture Saint Gines de la Jara...
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Google Cultural Institute: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
Manuscript artworks accompanied by descriptions that were part of a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in art from those times.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Paul Cezanne: Still Life With Blue Pot
Still Life with Blue Pot, watercolor, about 1900, by Paul Cezanne.
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Khan Academy: The Artists Behind the Polychrome Sculpture
As part of an extensive research effort by the J. Paul Getty Museum into the design and construction of the polychrome sculpture Saint Gines de la Jara, researchers made an important distinction in identifying not just the artist who...
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Khan Academy: Opening the Decorative Arts Collection
They may look like flat-front desks or cabinets, but many objects in the J. Paul Getty Museum's Decorative Arts collection contain secret keyholes, drawers, writing surfaces, and private cubbies that offer a fascinating glimpse into the...
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Khan Academy: Italian Gold Ground Painting
Many of the early works in the paintings collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are altarpieces and fragments of altarpieces made for Italian churches. They were placed above altars and served as the focal point of the Mass. Churches in...
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Khan Academy: Exploring Photographs
Learn the apprecation and analysis of photography as an art form.
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Khan Academy: Exploring Photographs Quiz
Test your knowledge about looking closely at photographs.
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Khan Academy: Spanish Polychrome Sculpture Quiz
Test your knowledge about Spanish polychrome sculptures.
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Khan Academy: The Artists Behind the Polychrome Sculpture
Learn about the artists behind the polychrome sculpture.
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Khan Academy: Daguerreotypes and Salted Paper Prints
Learn about the photography style of daguerreotypes and salted paper prints.