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The First Treatise on Museums – Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565
This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, first published in Latin in 1565, …
Futures & Ruins – Eighteenth–Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert
This is as the favoured artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersection between aesthetics and modernity's dawning business culture. …
The Herculaneum Women – History, Context, Identities
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, three life-sized marble statues of women were found near Portici on the Bay of Naples. This momentous discovery led to further …
The Life and the Work – Art and Biography
It is often assumed that reading about the lives of artists enhances our understanding of their work - and that their work will reveal to us something about them - but the …
American Painters on Technique – The Colonial Period to 1860
This title offers an original survey on Colonial artists' materials and techniques. This is the first comprehensive study of an important but largely anonymous part of the history …
Imagining the Past in France – History in Manuscript Painting, 1250–1500
From around 1250 to the close of the fifteenth century, the most important and original work being done in secular illumination was unquestionably in French vernacular history …
The J.Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection – Revised Edition
This is a stunningly illustrated examination of nearly two-hundred of the most important pieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum's Antiquities Collection. The antiquities collection at …
Paris – Life and Luxury in Eighteenth Century
This title provides a superbly illustrated and fascinating look at world of luxury objects in 18th-century Paris. Luxury items from centuries past are most often seen within museum …
Palace Sculptures of Abomey
The Fon, who are the largest ethnic group in the Republic of Benin in West Africa, established the powerful kingdom of Dahomey in the early seventeenth century. In their capital …
The Use of Oxygen–Free Environments in the Control of Museum Insect Pests
Museums throughout the world face the challenge of finding non-toxic methods to control insect pests. This book focuses on practical rather than theoretical issues in the use of …
Photography – Discovery and Invention
This volume, based on the 1989 Photography Symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, discusses the pioneers of the first decade of photography (many of them instrumental …
1 to 10 and Back Again – A Getty Museum Counting Book
In a companion book to A is for Artist: A Getty Museum Alphabet Book, ten objects--including fine clocks, gilded chairs, and elaborate globes--are cleverly arranged for little …