Welcome! We're so glad you're thinking about bringing your students to the Getty Center. An Arts Access field trip provides K-12 students with an immersive and inclusive onsite opportunity to engage ...

This exhibition explores the art of food created for royal court and civic celebrations in early modern Europe.

Edward and Henry T. Anthony were brothers as well as photographic partners. Edward, born in 1818, was a civil engineer until the daguerreotype debuted in the United States. Immediately stricken with ...

Guide to structure of metals including metallographic techniques and interpretation of microstructure for the conservation scientist and conservator.

This information comes from the Museum's collection database, and in some cases is incomplete or awaiting refinement. Researching the collection is a core component of our work, and we continue to ...

Explore the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.

In both myth and art, Aphrodite's beauty was often embellished with precious jewelry. The goddess's adornment served as a model for mortal women, and this aspiration can be seen on items of jewelry ...

Brief biography of Messerschmidt's life and work, including art studies in Vienna, important commissions, and mental instability later in life ...

This exhibition presents highlights from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's extensive collection of Nubian objects and features superbly crafted jewelry, metalwork, and sculpture exhibiting the wealth ...

Assyrian kings in the ninth to seventh centuries BC decorated their palaces with masterful relief sculptures that represent a high point of Mesopotamian art, both for their artistic quality and ...

In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe, October 23, 2012–March 24, 2013 ...

Inspired by a renewed interest in classical sculpture and closer study of nature, Renaissance artists made the nude body ever more vibrant, lifelike, and central to their practice. Yet pious European ...