When Cassas visited Palmyra in 1785, and Vignes nearly 80 years later, they experienced an ancient site that still stirred emotions more than a dozen centuries after its downfall. Positioned at a ...

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 ...

Founded in 300 BC, Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey) was one of the most important political and cultural centers of the Greek East, and it became one of the great metropolises of the Roman Empire ...

The latest finds—architectural remains, burial objects, stone artifacts, pottery, and copper objects—from recent excavations indicate that Cyprus played a more pivotal role in pre-Bronze Age ...

Unframed: 127.3 × 163.5 cm (50 1/8 × 64 3/8 in.)Framed [Outer Dim]: 163.8 × 199.4 × 14 cm (64 1/2 × 78 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.) This information comes from the Museum's collection database, and in some cases ...

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 ...

The ninth triennial meeting of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM), organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP) of ...

Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and ...

Proceedings of Meetings at the Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels, Belgium, September 21–24, 1987 The fifteen papers in this volume focus on treatments of western European tapestries ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern studies of ancient Greek vases have most often focused on the iconography of the painted images. Yet we know that in antiquity the potting of the vases was held in at least as much esteem as ...