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May 26, 2024 · Inspired by the ancient Roman Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, which was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Getty envisioned a museum that would transport visitors back in time to the world of the ancient Romans.
May 27, 2024 · The Getty Center is a modern design by Richard Meier in a picturesque hilly site in Santa Monica Mountains in California. It is a composition of buildings brought together in coherent unity in a language that flows, contrasts itself and further regenerates into fantastic forms as one moves through the site.
May 21, 2024 · 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 ...
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5 days ago · Ancient Egypt’s Blaze of Glory. A collection of exceptional sculptures from Egypt’s 26th Dynasty (664–526 BCE) is currently on view at the Getty Villa of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
May 19, 2024 · Getty Villa Museum - SBC. May 19, 2024. 8:00am - 6:00pm. Malibu, CA. The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu serves as a museum and educational center dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria.
2 days ago · Stunningly perched on an ocean-view hillside, this museum in a replica 1st-century Roman villa is an exquisite, 64-acre showcase for Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities.
May 16, 2024 · Get free tickets to the Getty Villa. Join antiquities curator David Saunders for a tour of the exhibition Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery, featuring terracotta vessels of the ancient Greeks in the Mediterranean, the Maya in central America, and the Moche of northern Peru.
