To Jeanne de Ferranti's business-minded parents, it was dismissed as an irresponsible waste of time, and it quickly became "the journey that never was". It didn't enter the record books, and it was never reported in the press. But to Jeanne and her f...

For sale in CIS only! Lord Byron completed his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean between 1809 and 1811, leaving England at the age of twenty-one as an undiscovered soul and returning as "Byron", with all that implies: the brand, the baggage and the br...

A lively text by the director and associate director of the Museum provides a biography of the Museum's benefactor, a history of the buildings that have housed his collections, and an overview of the collections themselves – first formed by Getty dur...