Since the acquisition of exotic creatures was very expensive, they would often be sent to menageries or zoological gardens around Rome to be tamed and trained for public entertainment before they reached the games, where death was inevitable.
Los Angeles: Getty Museum, 2001. Grant, Michael. Gladiators. Rev. ed.
Tile This image of a soaring phoenix with crested head and elaborate plumage, surrounded by swirling clouds, is a striking example of the adaptation of Chinese imagery by Persian artists
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Said to have been found on Rhodes (Richter 1943-44, p. 122). [1930, purchased by Joseph Brummer in Paris from Edouard Geladakis, Michel Petridi, and Ugo Jandolo]; [1930-1943, with Joseph Brummer, New York (P7108)]; acquired in 1943, purchased from Joseph Brummer
Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World cat. 20, pp. 55, 228–9, Titlepage, Los
1960, excavated under the direction of Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1960, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, pl. 25.
Studying first with François Élie Vincent (1708–1790), a miniaturist whose Paris studio was in the same street as her father’s shop, Adélaïde Labille embarked upon her career before she was twenty
Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2017, p. 167, no. 63. Seo, Ji Mary.
Inscription: Signed and dated (verso, left, in black paint): Juan Gris / ceret 10-13 [now concealed by relining; visible in infrared transmitted light; signature reproduced on relining]
Los Angeles County Museum.
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Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 2011, 59-68.
Bibliography of The Met’s Scientific Research department
Veliz Bomford, Getty Publications, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 11–32.
the artist (1914–d. 1916); his sister, Amelia Raffaella Boccioni Callegari, Verona (1916–45; sold in fall 1945 to Toninelli); Romeo Toninelli, Milan (1945–54; on consignment in 1954 to Galleria del Naviglio); [Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, 1954; sold on December 1, 1954, for $1,840, to Winston]; Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston, Birmingham, Mich
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
