Roman Portraits In The J Paul Getty Museum

Author : Jiří Frel,Sandra Knudsen Morgan
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780866590044

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Roman Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Jiří Frel,Sandra Knudsen Morgan Pdf

Portraits, sometimes crude in their realism or gripping in the sense of a living person, were one of the great achievements of Roman Art. The collection of one hundred portraits in the Getty Museum is one of the largest in the world. Dr. Frel surveys the history of Roman portrait art in an often controversial introduction on the purpose of portraits in Roman life and society, continuing his arguments through the catalogue analyses of the individual pieces. The occasion for the book was a loan exhibition of the portraits to the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa. This lavishly illustrated book presents a discussion of the principal views and the uses of the portrait in ancient times. The photographs include unusual views of the back and profiles of many portraits to show the care with which they were created and their damages and reworking over the centuries. The catalogue also includes five portraits that are late evocations of the antique and outright forgeries.

Author : Jiri Frel
Publisher : J. Paul Getty Trust Publications
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981-12-01
Category : Portrait sculpture, Roman
ISBN : 089236100X

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Roman Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Jiri Frel Pdf

Author : Alexis Belis
Publisher : J. Paul Getty Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606064975

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Roman Mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Alexis Belis Pdf

The mosaics in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum span the second through the sixth centuries AD and reveal the diversity of compositions found throughout the Roman Empire during this period. Elaborate floors of stone and glass tesserae transformed private dwellings and public buildings alike into spectacular settings of vibrant color, figural imagery, and geometric design. Scenes from mythology, nature, daily life, and spectacles in the arena enlivened interior spaces and reflected the cultural ambitions of wealthy patrons. This online catalogue documents all of the mosaics in the Getty Museum’s collection, presenting their artistry in new color photography as well as the contexts of their discovery and excavation across Rome's expanding empire—from its center in Italy to provinces in southern Gaul, North Africa, and ancient Syria. The free online edition of this open-access catalogue, available at www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/, includes zoomable high-resolution photography, embedded glossary terms and additional comparative images, and interactive maps drawn from the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book, CSV and JSON downloads of the object data from the catalogue, and JPG and PPT downloads of the main catalogue images.

Author : Marie Svoboda,Caroline Cartwright
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066539

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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt by Marie Svoboda,Caroline Cartwright Pdf

This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections. Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared database. The first phase of the project was marked with a two-day conference at the Getty Villa. Conservators, scientists, and curators presented new research on topics such as provenance and collecting, comparisons of works across institutions, and scientific studies of pigments, binders, and supports. The papers and posters from the conference are collected in this publication, which offers the most up-to-date information available about these fascinating remnants of the ancient world. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/mummyportraits/ and includes zoomable illustrations and graphs. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.

Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360710

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Ancient Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum by The J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

This first volume in the Occasional Papers on Antiquities subseries on ancient portraits presents a detailed examination and analysis by Sheldon Nodelman of a portrait of Brutus. Fleming Johansen reviews marble busts of Julius Caesar and, in a second article, discusses portraits of Caligula. Other contributions include Susan Wood’s analysis of third-century portraits of child emperors and Siri Sande’s essay on two Gallienic female portraits.

Author : Jirí Frel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:878640428

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Roman Portraits in the Getty Museum by Jirí Frel Pdf

Author : Guntram Koch,Karol Wight
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360857

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Roman Funerary Sculpture by Guntram Koch,Karol Wight Pdf

During the Roman Empire lavish marble monuments to the dead were erected to decorate tombs and cemeteries. A group of these memorials, often so opulent that they required considerable economic sacrifice from the families who commissioned them, is catalogued in this volume.

Author : Jens M. Deahner,Kenneth Lapatin
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606064399

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Power and Pathos by Jens M. Deahner,Kenneth Lapatin Pdf

For the general public and specialists alike, the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) and its diverse artistic legacy remain underexplored and not well understood. Yet it was a time when artists throughout the Mediterranean developed new forms, dynamic compositions, and graphic realism to meet new expressive goals, particularly in the realm of portraiture. Rare survivors from antiquity, large bronze statues are today often displayed in isolation, decontextualized as masterpieces of ancient art. Power and Pathos gathers together significant examples of bronze sculpture in order to highlight their varying styles, techniques, contexts, functions, and histories. As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes groundbreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient production and correctly identifying these remarkable pieces. Designed to become the standard reference for decades to come, the book emphasizes the unique role of bronze both as a medium of prestige and artistic innovation and as a material exceptionally suited for reproduction. Power and Pathos is published on the occasion of an exhibition on view at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum from July 20 through November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from December 6, 2015, through March 20, 2016.

Author : Marion True,Jorge Silvetti
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art museum architecture
ISBN : 0892368411

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The Getty Villa by Marion True,Jorge Silvetti Pdf

The original Getty Museum, housed in a replica of a Roman Villa on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is one of Los Angeles's most treasured landmarks. Closed for almost ten years while renovations were made to the building and the site itself was transformed into a center for the study of antiquities and conservation, the Getty Villa is now set to open late in 2005. The Getty Villa is a lively history of the Getty Museum, its renowned antiquities collections, and its growth from a small museum in a ranch house in Malibu to its first home in a building designed to replicate what we know of the Villa dei Papiri, an ancient Roman villa partially uncovered in Herculaneum. Most engagingly, this book records the ten-year adventure in reconfiguring a beautiful, but topographically challenging, site into one that could continue to accommodate the splendid Museum building and also provide for an outdoor theater, laboratories for conservation work and research, offices for staff and visiting scholars, and an education program for adults and children. This is a story of architectural imagination, geographical challenges, and legal hurdles, all of which have resulted in a truly unique and beautiful site. The story is an enlightening and rewarding one for anyone interested in architecture and in the difficulties posed by building on a grand scale in the twenty-first century. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book includes 250 reproductions of works of art, photographs of both the old and the new Getty Museum, site plans, and architectural elevations.

Author : Janet Burnett Grossman
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367083

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Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone by Janet Burnett Grossman Pdf

What is a an anthemion? What is giallo antico marble? Who was Praxiteles? This richly illustrated book -- in the popular Looking At series -- presents definitions and descriptions of these and many other terms relating to Greek and Roman sculpture encountered in museum exhibitions and publications on ancient stone sculpture. This is an indispensable guide to anyone looking for greater understanding of ancient sculpture and heightened enjoyment of the objects. Book jacket.

Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360321

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal by The J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 9 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes an Editorial Statement by the Journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, Curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, Curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, Curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems will be discussed along with the articles written by Dietrich Von Bothmer, Martha Ohly-Dumm, Martin Robertson, R. M. Cook, Bonnie M. Kingsley, Mario A. Del Chiaro, Maxwell L. Anderson, Fikret K. Yegül, Jiří Frel, Catherine Lees-Causey, Roy Kotansky, A. E. Raubitschek, Stanley M. Burstein, Stéphanie Boucher, Jerry Podany, Zdravko Barov, George R. Goldner, Maurizio Marini, Burton B. Fredericksen, Sir Francis Watson, and Adrian Sassoon.

Author : David L. Thompson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360383

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Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum by David L. Thompson Pdf

These extraordinary Egyptian images produced from Julio-Claudian times through the age of Constantine (the first four centuries A.D.), seem often to have been commissioned while the subject was still alive and displayed in the home. At death, the portrait was inserted into the deceased’s mummy wrappings. Thirteen mummy portraits from the Getty Museum’s collection are catalogued in this text by Dr. David Thompson, professor of Classics at Howard University. Placing the works in the context of other so-called Fayum paintings, Dr. Thompson examines their importance as portraits and identifies the hands of individual painters. Numerous illustrations accompany his discussion.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Portrait sculpture, Greek
ISBN : PSU:000002161860

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Greek and Roman Portraits from the J. Paul Getty Museum by J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

Author : Susan E. Alcock,Mariana Egri,James F. D. Frakes
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606064719

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Beyond Boundaries by Susan E. Alcock,Mariana Egri,James F. D. Frakes Pdf

The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative ways to discuss the nature and development of the art and archaeology of the Roman provinces. The result is a collection of nineteen compelling essays—accompanied by carefully curated visual documentation, seven detailed maps, and an extensive bibliography—organized around the four major themes of provincial contexts, tradition and innovation, networks and movements, and local accents in an imperial context. Easy assumptions about provincial dependence on metropolitian models give way to more complicated stories. Similarities and divergences in local and regional responses to Rome appear, but not always in predictable places and in far from predictable patterns. The authors dismiss entrenched barriers between art and archaeology, center and provinces, even “good art” and “bad art,” extending their observations well beyond the empire’s boundaries, and examining phenomena, sites, and monuments not often found in books about Roman art history or archaeology. The book thus functions to encourage continued critical engagement with how scholars study the material past of the Roman Empire and, indeed, of imperial systems in general.

Author : Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606062982

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Display of Art in the Roman Palace, 1550–1750 by Gail Feigenbaum Pdf

This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple artistic, social, and political messages, all within a splendid environment that provided a model for aristocratic residences throughout Europe. Many of the objects exhibited in museums today once graced the interior of a Roman Baroque palazzo or a setting inspired by one. In fact, the very convention of a paintings gallery— the mainstay of museums—traces its ancestry to prototypes in the palaces of Rome. Inside Roman palaces, the display of art was calibrated to an increasingly accentuated dynamism of social and official life, activated by the moving bodies and the attention of residents and visitors. Display unfolded in space in a purposeful narrative that reflected rank, honor, privilege, and intimacy. With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the influential emerging concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history—even the emergence of the modern category of fine art—was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.