Accelerated Aging: Photochemical and Thermal Aspects represents the culmination of more than 40 years of research by noted scientist Robert L. Feller. The book focuses on the long-term performance of ...

The nude—the unclothed or partially clothed human body—has been featured in European art for millennia. After 1400, with the waning of the Middle Ages, artists depicted nudes as increasingly ...

Museums throughout the world face the challenge of finding nontoxic methods to control insect pests. This book focuses on practical rather than theoretical issues in the use of oxygen-free ...

Although one of the newer collections in the Getty Museum, sculpture occupies an important place in the Museum’s acquisition efforts. For the first time, the entire sculpture collection is catalogued ...

The collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman of New York is one of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman art in the United States and among the most important in the ...

The reference information listed below is intended for those who work with the Getty's data. This information comes from the Museum's collection database, and in some cases is incomplete or awaiting ...

French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the Getty Museum’s seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles—one of the world’s finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary ...

This extraordinary collection of rare books and prints on gastronomy from the 15th through the 20th centuries offers unique insight into the visual culture of food. The elaborate art of culinary ...

This detailed book is a “how-to” guide to building controlled vocabulary tools, cataloging and indexing cultural materials with terms and names from controlled vocabularies, and using vocabularies in ...

The end and aim of all artistic endeavor is liberation of the spiritual essence of form and color and its release from imprisonment in the world of objects. 1 Johannes Itten Color-Light Plays was ...

Petra, Angkor, Copan, Venice, Lascaux, Easter Island—all are examples of irreplaceable cultural heritage built in stone and now slowly disappearing. In 1996 the Getty Conservation Institute published ...