Elaborate artworks made of food were created for royal court and civic celebrations in early modern Europe. Like today's Rose Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day or Mardi Gras just before Lent, festivals ...

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1754 and soon received important commissions from the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa and her consort, Francis Stephen of ...

In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove a car rigged with a motorized camera to capture Los Angeles’ most iconic street: Sunset Boulevard. He created a time capsule of its famed facades, beginning a sixty-year-long ...

This information comes from the Museum's collection database, and in some cases is incomplete or awaiting refinement. Researching the collection is a core component of our work, and we continue to ...

Alessandra Sprega, Benjamin Marcus, Elena Macchioni, Claudia Cancino, 2025 Download PDF Download EPUB Print on Demand (Lulu.com) The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) has demonstrated a commitment to ...

Section of the Vienna Codex by an anonymous Mixtec artist. Hand-colored etching and aquatint after original maunscript in Alexander von Humboldt, Vues des Cordillères, et monuments des peoples ...

Considered one of the most influential schools of art and design of the 20th century, the Bauhaus forged a unique educational vision that blended theory with practice in order to cultivate a new ...

In June 2015, the Getty Conservation Institute convened a meeting at the Rothschild Foundation at Windmill Hill Archive on the Waddesdon Manor and Estate in Aylesbury, UK, to explore the possibilities ...