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As I See It: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty

As I See It: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty more books like this

by J Paul Getty

While writing his autobiography, Jean Paul Getty - then perhaps the world's richest man - hoped it would be the final verdict on himself, on his many friends and associates, and on his times. Regrettably, it proved to be so: Getty died in 1976 as "As I See It" was going to press. Now reissued with a number of new illustrations, this autobiography ...

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How to be rich

How to be rich more books like this

by J Paul Getty

There are plenty of books on making money by men who haven't made much. But if J. Paul Getty, who Fortune magazine called "the richest man in the world, " doesn't know how, who does? Here the billionaire businessman discloses the secrets of his success - and provided a blueprint for those who want to follow in his footsteps. And he goes beyond the ...

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Drawings

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Drawings more books like this

by Getty Trust Publications, J Paul Getty Museum

The collection of European drawings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, built up over a decade and a half, has increased steadily in both breadth and depth. While the holdings of drawings from the Italian Renaissance are particularly strong - including, for instance, a double-sided sheet by Leonardo da Vinci - other schools, the French, in particular, ...

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The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for the New Century

The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for the New Century more books like this

by Griffin Walsh, J Paul Getty Museum, Deborah Ann Gribbon

Presents a biography of J. Paul Getty and a history of the collections and the buildings that have housed them. Documents and photographs help to illustrate Getty's life as he travelled the world, and over 100 reproductions show the range and depth of the collections.

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A is for Artist: A Getty Museum Alphabet

A is for Artist: A Getty Museum Alphabet more books like this

by J Paul Getty Museum (Creator)

The letters of the alphabet are illustrated for children in details from 26 paintings in the collection of the John Paul Getty Museum. The book also contains reproductions of the 26 paintings.

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts more books like this

by Getty Trust Publications

The Getty Museum's collection of illuminated manuscripts, featured in this book, comprises masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance art. Dating from the tenth to the sixteenth century, they were produced in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, England, Spain, Poland, and the eastern Mediterranean. Among the highlights are four Ottonian manuscripts, ...

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Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms

Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms more books like this

by Michelle P Brown

This illustrated text answers questions about the making of illuminated manuscripts, offering definitions of the techniques, processes and materials used and discussing textual and illustrative contents. The technical terms included are accompanied by examples for clarification.

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections

The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections more books like this

by J Paul Getty Museum

Fully revised and updated to include many major new pieces, as well as the more familiar masterpieces that millions of visitors have become acquainted with over the years, this superb volume presents a visually stunning journey through the unique collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum.This new edition also marks the historic moment when the ...

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections

The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections more books like this

by Getty Trust Publications, J Paul Getty Museum

This revised edition of the handbook highlights the collections at the new J. Paul Getty Museum in the Getty Center, including the newest acquisitions. 340 works of art are reproduced, each with information about content and style. The introduction traces the history of the Museum.

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Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum

Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum more books like this

by J Paul Getty Museum

This anthology features classical Greek odes, hymns, and lyrics by Homer, Sappho, and others translated by modern masters including George Chapman, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and W. B. Yeats. Details of Greek frescoes, sculpture, and vase paintings accompany the text, which is present in both translation and the original Ancient Greek.

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In Focus Series more books like this

by J Paul Getty Museum

This is a collection of photographs by avant-garde artist and photographer Man Ray, from the John Paul Getty Museum. The photographs date from 1910 to the 1940s, and each image is provided with a commentary. Also included is an edited transcript of a colloquium on Man's career.

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections more books like this

by Getty Museum (Creator), J Paul Getty Museum

A handbook to the collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum. In total some 340 works of art from the different collections are reproduced here, including antiquities, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, decorative arts, sculpture and photographs.

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Photographs more books like this

by J Paul Getty Museum

Ranging from nineteenth-century daguerreotypes to more recent work by photographers such as Frederick Sommer and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of more than one hundred thousand images ranks among the most comprehensive holdings of rare and important photographs in the world. The latest addition to the Masterpieces of ...

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Metalwork from the Hellenized East: Catalogue of the Collections. the J. Paul Getty Museum more books like this

by Michael Pfrommer, J Paul Getty Museum

This lavishly illustrated catalogue is devoted to the Museum's collection of silver and gold from the Hellenized Near East--one of the largest yet assembled. Among the objects included are rhyta, bowls, cups, jewelry, and decorative gold and silver ornaments for horse bridles and clothing. In an extensive introduction, the author dates the various ...

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Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits more books like this

by Arthur K Wheelock, J Paul Getty Museum

One of the most fascinating aspects of Rembrandt's extraordinary artistic career is his suite of brooding half-length portraits of religious figures from the late 1650s and early 1660s. Painted during a difficult time in the artist's life - when he no longer enjoyed a ready market for his works and may have turned to his deep religious convictions ...

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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Paintings more books like this

by Getty Trust Publications

The J. Paul Getty Museum's paintings collection, featured in this volume, ranges from the fourteenth to the end of the nineteenth century. Among the finest examples of early Renaissance painting are Masaccio's Saint Andrew and Gentile da Fabriano's richly painted Coronation of the Virgin. Typical of the High Renaissance are Andrea Mantegna's ...

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Masterpieces of painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum more books like this

by J Paul Getty Museum (Creator)

The J. Paul Getty Museum's paintings collection continues to grow in breadth and quality, and since the last edition of Masterpieces important acquisitions have been made in works ranging from the 14th to the end of the 19th century. This new edition includes many of the significant new additions to the collection, among them Gentileschi's "Lot ...

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Guide to the Villa and Its Gardens more books like this

by J Paul Getty Museum, J Paul Museum Sta Getty

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Roman Funerary Monuments: Volume 1 more books like this

by Knoch Guntram, Guntram Koch (Editor), J Paul Getty Museum

This is the sixth volume in the Museum's series of Occasional Papers on Antiquities. Important Roman funerary monuments in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection are examined, and much new scholarly research is included. Contributors include Guntram Koch (on Phrygian funerary relifes and on a sarcophagus at the Huntington Library), Henning Wrede, ...

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Vincennes and Sevres Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collections. the J. Paul Getty Museum more books like this

by Adrian Sassoon, J Paul Getty Museum

This book is the first completely detailed and descriptive companion to the museum's holdings of Vincennes and Sevres porcelain. The porcelain is catalogued in chronological order by factory. Each entry provides a complete bibliography and provenance, as well as details on factory listing, artist, date, measurements, distinguishing marks, and much ...

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Seeing the Getty Gardens: A Souvenir Book more books like this

by J Paul Getty Museum, Jeffrey Hirsch

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Guide to the Getty Villa more books like this

by J Paul Getty Trust Publication (Creator)

The Getty Villa in Malibu includes the only museum in the United States devoted solely to classical antiquities. The Museum building seeks to replicate the ground plan and major architectural features - insofar as they have been studied and documented - of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius; the ...

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Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum more books like this

by Getty J Paul Trust Publication

The glorious poetry of Rome has endured for more than two thousand years. For most of that time, it was read only in the original Latin, but over the centuries celebrated writers, from John Dryden to Aubrey Beardsley to Ezra Pound, have been inspired to create translations that reflect their own ages, while retaining the vibrancy of the originals. ...

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection more books like this

by J Paul Getty Museum

Paul Getty bought his first classical antiquity - a small terracotta sculpture - at auction in London in 1939. Over the next four decades, he became a passionate collector, and in the 1950s he created a trust for "the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge". Building on that early foundation, successive antiquities curators at the Getty ...

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In Focus: Andre Kertesz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum more books like this

by J Paul Getty Museum, Andre Kertesz

Kertesz created some of the most acclaimed photographs of the twentieth century, and the J. Paul Getty Museum is fortunate to own a wide selection of his work. This volume - the first in the Museum's new In Focus series, which is devoted to photographers whose work is particularly well represented in the Getty - presents a handsome selection from ...

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