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 ...

A physician, physicist, Cartesian, and “Modern” in the famous querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, Claude Perrault acquired architectural immortality with his design (sometimes challenged) and ...

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 ...

Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Figures 3, 9–17, 22–24, 28, 32, 33, 36, 38, 40, 51, and 54 are reproduced with the ...

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 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 ...

This major loan exhibition was organized by the Albertina Museum, Vienna, in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, to mark the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth. The drawings in this exhibition ...

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 ...

Since writing this chapter for the 2008 edition of Introduction to Metadata, I have found that people are now more aware of the importance of rights metadata and the need to collect and share it. More ...

This digital resource is a gateway to the David Tudor papers and related collections at the Getty Research Institute, providing links to online library records and collection finding aids. It ...

Saint Paul was painted by an unknown French artist in about 1520–1530. This work of art lives at the Getty Center. Find out if it's on view. Can you imagine a world without any colors in it? What ...

Anne T. Woollett and Ariane van Suchtelen; with contributions by Tiarna Doherty, Mark Leonard, and Jørgen Wadum At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the ...