Guide to structure of metals including metallographic techniques and interpretation of microstructure for the conservation scientist and conservator.

Welcome! We're so glad you're thinking about bringing your students to the Getty Center. An Arts Access field trip provides K-12 students with an immersive and inclusive onsite opportunity to engage ...

This information comes from the Museum's collection database, and in some cases is incomplete or awaiting refinement. Researching the collection is a core component of our work, and we continue to ...

Explore the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.

Explore the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.

German-born Mexican photographer. Photographs by Hugo Brehme document two episodes of the Mexican Revolution: La Decena Trágica of 1913, the ten days of counter-revolutionary insurrections against ...

This information comes from the Museum's collection database, and in some cases is incomplete or awaiting refinement. Researching the collection is a core component of our work, and we continue to ...

The collection contains over 18,000 photographic negatives, 1,700 color slides, and 1,200 transparencies taken by Lucien Hervé, Le Corbusier's official photographer. Organized by project, this ...

Brief biography of Messerschmidt's life and work, including art studies in Vienna, important commissions, and mental instability later in life ...

The Museum’s photographs collection celebrates its 35th anniversary with an exhibition showcasing photographs never before displayed at the Getty. From 19th-century European and American photographs ...

Chinese and Japanese imports were wildly popular in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s. Every fashionable home was furnished with porcelain, lacquer, silk, and other materials previously little known in ...

Inspired by a renewed interest in classical sculpture and closer study of nature, Renaissance artists made the nude body ever more vibrant, lifelike, and central to their practice. Yet pious European ...