Released from his prison of incrustation, having rested on the ocean floor for thousands of years, the bronze statue of an athlete stands in a quietly arrogant pose, having just placed an olive ...

When Friedrich Gilly died in 1800, at the age of twenty-eight, he had published only four short essays, and his executed works consisted of a few minor buildings still under construction. Nonetheless, ...

John C. Welchman Henry Moore in America: The Role of Journalism and Photography Pauline Rose “More Light and Less Heat”: The Intersection of Henry Seldis’s Art Criticism and the Career of Henry Moore ...

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 ...

Thirty-five years ago the Getty Museum created its Department of Photographs with the acquisition of several world-famous private collections. This dramatic initiative, which extended the ...

Mary Morton and Charlotte Eyerman, with an essay by Dominique de Font-Réaulx While the large-scale figural works of Gustave Courbet’s early to mid-career—pictures such as Burial at Ornans, The ...

Cross section of the main house. Cross section of the main house and the house at the back. The outside wall facing the alley, showing the iron cross ties. View into the small inner court at the back ...

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 lesson plan and downloadable materials on this page are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. • Students can define a landscape and identify how artists visually ...

Principles of Experimental Design for Art Conservation Research, by Terry J. Reedy and Chandra L. Reedy, covers both practical and statistical aspects of experimental design, as well as laboratory ...

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 ...

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 ...