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An archival collection is a unique body of information, created at a particular time by a particular organization or individual as a result of a particular activity. If the cultural record contained ...

Alfred Stieglitz, The Hand of Man, 1902, Gelatin silver print , c. 1933, 8.3 x 11.3 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes is intended ...

The Group Portraiture of Holland shows how artists such as Rembrandt and Frans Hals radically altered the relationship of the beholder to the work of art. Alois Riegl’s masterly study has become a ...

Runge rejected the tradition of academic art in favor of a radical, highly personal vision that symbolically expressed the essential harmony of nature, humanity, and the divine. The idea behind the ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti is recognized as one of the most creative and influential artists in the history of Western art. His most celebrated creations have become icons of world culture: the ...

Art and the people must form an entity … The aim is an alliance of the arts under the wing of great architecture. 1 Walter Gropius, et al. The school officially opened on April 1, 1919. In a rousing ...

The works of the late Victorian painter Lawrence Alma Tadema have recently enjoyed a revived interest. This second volume in the Getty Museum Studies on Art series focuses on Spring, one of Alma ...

The lesson plan and downloadable materials on this page are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. • discuss the composition of space within a landscape painting. • ...

Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and ...

This is the fifth volume to appear in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been influential in the development of thinking ...

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 ...