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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Joefnagel
ISBN: HB: 9781606066584, Getty Publications, September 2020
424 pp., 0x0 cm
In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) as a demonstration of his own preeminence among scribes. Some thi...
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project
ISBN: PB: 9781606066546, Getty Publications, September 2020
228 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus. illus; 26 diagrams, tables
Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings...
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Mesopotamia Civilization Begins
ISBN: HB: 9781606066492, Getty Publications, April 2020
352 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 270 colour illus. illus; 1 map
Ancient Mesopotamia, a region that mainly corresponds to modern-day Iraq, has a record of human activity dating back nearly fifteen thousand years. Writing was invented in Mesopotamia at the end of the fourth millennium BCE, and urbanization reached...
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Museum Lighting A Guide for Conservators and Curators
ISBN: PB: 9781606066379, Getty Publications, February 2020
328 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Author David Saunders, former keeper of conservation and scientific research at the British Museum, explores how to balance the conflicting goals of visibility and preservation under a variety of conditions. Beginning with the science of how light, c...
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More than One Picture An Art History of the Hyperimage
ISBN: PB: 9781606066256, Getty Publications, November 2019
240 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
In exhibitions, illustrated art books, and classrooms, artworks or their photographic reproductions are arranged as calculated ensembles that have their own importance. In this volume, Felix Thurlemann develops a theory of this type of image use, arg...
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Modern Metals in Cultural Heritage Understanding and Characterization
ISBN: PB: 9781606066058, Getty Publications, July 2019
176 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
The proliferation of new metals-such as stainless steels, aluminium alloys and metallic coatings-in modern and contemporary art and architecture has made the need for professionals who can address their conservation more critical than ever. This volu...
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Masterpieces of Painting J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: HB: 9781606065792, Getty Publications, June 2019
160 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 139 colour illus.
"I am convinced that the true collector does not acquire objects of art for himself alone. His is no selfish drive or desire to have and hold a painting, a sculpture, or a fine example of antique furniture so that only he may see and enjoy it. Apprec...
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Manet and Modern Beauty The Artist's Last Years
ISBN: HB: 9781606066041, Getty Publications, June 2019
400 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
The name Manet often evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines,...
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Maria Sibylla Merian Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
ISBN: HB: 9781947440012, Getty Publications, March 2018
96 pp., 25.9x22.3 cm, 116 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis-years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later, Merian and her daughter ventured thousands of miles...
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Making Art Concrete Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Coleccion Patricia Phelps Cisneros
ISBN: HB: 9781606065297, Getty Publications, August 2017
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
In the years after World War II, artists in Argentinaand Brazil experimented with geometric abstractionand engaged in lively debates about the role of theartwork in society. Some of these artists used novelsynthetic materials, creating objects that o...
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