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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
This text focuses on European clocks produced in the 18th century and 20 clocks from the J. Paul Getty museum. Each clock is pictured and discussed, with movement diagrammed and described, biographies of the clock makers and enamelers and an index of makers, previous owners and locations.
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.
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, ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) began his long and colourful career in Southern California. Among the more than fifty prints gleaned from the Getty Museum's important collection of approximately 240 works that span the photographer's career, this book features pictures made in Claremont, Glendale, Los ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Getty Museum's paintings collection, featured in this volume, rang es from the 14th century to the end of the 19th. It includes fine examples of early Renaissance and high Renaissance painting, as well as the art of the Netherlands and France and the art of the modern age. Paintings such as "The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark" by Jan ...
Beautiful objects from the French Decorative Arts collection in the J. Paul Getty Museum, such as clocks, beds, chairs, and tea cups, are cleverly arranged for little fingers to find in this children's counting book. Once young readers solidify their counting skills in the first half of the book, the objects are scrambled and used to teach how to ...
This volume reproduces a selection of the most inspiring Psalms, following the King James translation, which is accompanied by a painting of illuminated manuscript from masters such as Giotto, Tintoretto, Michelangelo, and others. Color illustrations.
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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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