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.
David worked in a progressive, even enterprising, mode, casting off his late medieval heritage and proceeding with a certain purity of vision in an age of transition.
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003.
This painting has been dated convincingly to about 1658 (Gudlaugsson 1948–49). The careful dovetailing of shapes between the man and woman is similar to Vermeer’s approach to design at about the same time, but Ter Borch’s style differs strongly in most respects
Los Angeles, 2003, p. 305 n. 199, pp. 570, 601, 630. Marjorie E.
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.
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.
The first major retrospective of the work of this virtuoso Netherlandish mannerist, comprising spectacular figural displays in prints and paintings, remarkable pen paintings on parchment, and vivid portraits in colored chalks and silverpoint.
His early Danaë (1603, Los Angeles County Museum of Art) was clearly intended as
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (1995–2002).
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.
