Rue Darb el-Barabra, Robertson and Beato, ca. 1857. Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography Collection. The Getty Research Institute, 2008.R.3 Exceptionally strong holdings of this genre were ...

Over the past twenty-five years, Abelardo Morell (American, born Cuba, 1948) has become internationally renowned for photographs that push the boundaries of the medium while exploring visual surprise ...

During the first phase of the GCI's Seismic Retrofitting Project comprehensive damage and construction assessments were developed for four historic earthen sites in Peru that together represent ...

This is the third report on the research on values and economics of cultural heritage, which was started at the Getty Conservation Institute in 1995.The early results of this project highlighted some ...

Find in WorldCat Guías de planeamiento e ingeniería para la establizatión sismorresistente de estructuras históricas de adobe Download PDF Find in WorldCat A companion volume to Seismic Stabilization ...

9. Mosaic Panel with Peacock Facing Left Roman, from Syria, possibly Emesa (present-day Homs), AD 400–600 Stone tesserae, 196.9 cm × 115.5 cm 75.AH.121 Gift of William Wahler 10. Mosaic Panel with ...

The Villa dei Papiri was a sumptuous private residence on the Bay of Naples, just outside the Roman town of Herculaneum. Deeply buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, it was rediscovered ...

To understand the unique location of this church, i.e. in the attic of a merchant’s house, and its clandestine use over the centuries, it is necessary to dive into the history of the Dutch Republic.

The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of outstanding ...

David Myers and Janet Hansen A critical first step in the conservation of cultural heritage is to identify and understand the places we want to protect. This publication provides a step-by-step guide ...

A kind of encyclopedia of animals, the bestiary was among the most popular illuminated texts in northern Europe during the Middle Ages (about 500–1500). Because medieval Christians understood every ...

In 1828 a young architect, Heinrich Hübsch, published a polemical study in which he suggested that the rapid technological progress of the early nineteenth century, combined with changed living habits ...