The Amasis Painter was one of ancient Greece’s greatest vase painters, yet his own name has not been recorded, and he is known today only by the name of the potter whose works he most often decorated.

Challenge your students to discover how "traditional" works of art in the Getty Museum's collection have inspired and informed contemporary artists.

Paperback and e-book versions also available for sale. Published July 2016. Metadata, literally “data about data,” provides a means of indexing, accessing, preserving, and discovering digital ...

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Enhance students' understanding of artists, art history, materials, and techniques with interactive Web pages, online games, activities, and videos. Enliven your classroom teaching with select ...

Self-Portrait as Midas was sculpted by French artist Jean-Joseph Carriès around 1885. This work of art lives at the Getty Center. Find out if it's on view. This sculpture of a man with great big ears ...

Poster promoting the Tenth Anniversary Benefit for The Kitchen, Robert Longo, 1981. The Kitchen Archive, ca. 1971–1999. The Getty Research Institute, 2014.M.6 The archive of New York City's leading ...

A kind of encyclopedia of animals, the bestiary was among the most popular illuminated texts in northern Europe during the Middle Ages (about 500–1500). Because medieval Christians understood every ...

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 ...

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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 ...