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Visit the Getty's two museums. Explore our Exhibitions. Learn more about the Museum. The collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum comprises Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity; European art from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century; and international photography from its inception to the present day.
May 2, 2024 · The museum at the Getty became the home for J. Paul Getty’s collection of European paintings, sculpture, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and decorative arts from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. It also has international photographs that date from the late 1830s to the present.
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- Van Gogh, Irises
- Edouard Manet, Spring
- Claude Monet Works
- Cezanne, Still Life with Apples
- J.M.W. Turner, Modern Rome
- Goya, Bullfight
- Jacques-Louis David, The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharist
- Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Fountain of Love
- Andrea Mantegna, The Adoration of The Magi
- Gentle de Fabriano, The Coronation of The Virgin
The absolute star of the Getty Center is Vincent Van Gogh’s Irises.In fact, it’s so sought after that the museum employees may point you right to the West pavilion where it’s housed. Van Goghwas a Dutch Post-Impressionism artist now considered one of the greatest and most influential painters in art history. Van Gogh’s work is notable for its swirl...
Manet is known as the “Father of Impressionism,” though he really preceded and overlapped with the movement. Manet had a huge impact on the development of modernism. He led a bohemian life and scandalized the official Salon with his utter disregard for academic conventions and his strikingly modern images of urban life. This late Manet portrait dep...
The Getty has a trio of significant paintings by the ever-popular Impressionist artist Claude Monet. Sunrise is a painting that kicked off the Impressionism movement. Along with its companion piece Impression Sunrise at Paris’ Musee Marmottan Monet, it exemplifies Monet’s “plein air” (outdoor) approach to painting and his signature informal and spo...
Cezanne was a hugely influential painter of the late 19th century. Monet called Cezanne “the greatest of us all.” For Picasso, he was the father of modern art. Cezanne threw away the long prevailing convention of single point perspective. He used multiple perspectives in a single canvas, portraying objects as sets of abstract shapes. Still lifes we...
Turner is Britain’s most famous and important Romantic era artist. In the mid 19th century, Turner shocked his colleagues with his loose brush strokes and fiery palette, presaging the later Impressionist movement. In this Getty painting, Turner captures the Eternal City of Rome. The city’s ancient ruins are seen through a shimmering veil of paint a...
In the 19th century, Goya was the most famous painter in Spain, with no rival during his lifetime. He was the official court painter for Charles IV and Ferdinand VII, specializing in portraits and religious paintings. Goya was known for capturing not only his subjects’ likenesses, but their personal expressiveness and individuality. Bullfights were...
French artist Jacques-Louis David was a master of the grand Neo-Classical style of painting. It was a style and subject matter derived from antiquity. His painting are characterized by firm linear contours, pure colors, polished forms, and frieze-like compositions. This painting is the very image of ideal love. It was inspired by characters from Ho...
Fragonard was an 18th century French painter whose reputation rests on his light-hearted Rococo love scenes. He was renowned for his use of light, color and expressive brushstrokes. Fragonard’s most famous painting is the iconic Swing in London’s Wallace Collection. Like that one, this Getty Center painting, Fountain of Love, is set in a verdant an...
Italian artist Andrea Mantegnabridged the Early and High Renaissance periods of art history. He was a pioneer of spatial illusionism. Mantegna used visual distortions to create uncanny effects of 2D and 3D images on flat surfaces. His works reflect a perfectionist love of detail. This painting is a close up composition of half length figures set ag...
This beautiful painting is an early Renaissance work by Italian artist Gentile da Fabriano. In a formal ceremony, Christ crowns his mother, the Virgin Mary. The painting was once a processional standard.Typical of Fabriano’s worth painting has richly saturated colors ad decorative gold leaf. The other side of our panel once bore another painting, a...
5 days ago · 22 essential artworks at the Getty and the surprising stories behind them. Robert Irwin’s “Central Garden,” a living artwork at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. (Allen J. Schaben / Los ...
The Getty Center is located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles and features pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, decorative arts, and photographs from the inception of photography through present day from all over the world.
The Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts oversees a rich collection of nearly 1,700 objects, spanning from the late-12th to mid-20th centuries. The European decorative arts holdings, which J. Paul Getty began acquiring in the 1930s, count among the world’s finest for their quality, rarity, and historical interest.
Art from ancient to contemporary at two Los Angeles locations. Changing exhibitions, education programs, and more.
