Following renovation, 500 sub-Saharan African works highlight major movements—one-fourth on view for the first time—spanning the Middle Ages to today.
Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowships, Saar currently lives and works in Los
The daughter of an army sergeant, Hendrickje Stoffels advanced in Rembrandt’s household from servant (by 1649) to mistress, presumed model, and common-law wife, as well as stepmother to the artist’s son Titus (1641–1668) and mother of his daughter Cornelia (1654–1685)
Los Angeles. J. Paul Getty Museum.
This group of five ivory panels are the reassembled elements of a „composite casket,“ so called by scholars because the narrative scenes that adorn them are vignettes from a variety of popular stories and chivalric romances
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. no. 55, pp. 281–83.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
/makers 1865–1873 Head a young woman facing the viewer, from the portfolio ‚Los
This magnificent painting by the leading painter of King Louis XIV (1638–1715)—the artist who supervised the decoration of the Louvre and Versailles and headed the Gobelins manufactory for tapestries and furniture—is a landmark in the history of French portraiture
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; 94.SB.11.1) This image cannot be enlarged, viewed
Description of the China: Through the Looking Glass galleries
Born in Los Angeles in 1905 as Huang Liushuang ("yellow willow frost"), she was fated
Although the French neo-classical artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres often confessed reluctance to paint portraits, his many splendid paintings of French aristocrats and powerful personalities ultimately glorified his persona, and assured his social ascendancy in the royal circles of Louis-Philippe d’Orléans (r
Los Angeles, 2006, p. 61, color ill. p. 60. Michael Leyton.
Gericault’s lifelong interest in animal themes is best known through his love of horses. He had an intimate knowledge of horses, which he derived not only from drawing and painting them continually but also from developing his skills as an equestrian
, for example, by a sketchbook datable to about 1812–14, in the Getty Museum, Los
