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Edme Bouchardon’s street peddlers convey the humanity of an eighteenth-century city: vendors calling out their wares and services, singing musicians accompanied by portable instruments, and other ...

This two-day symposium, part of the Panel Paintings Initiative and hosted by the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, highlighted recent developments in ...

Edited by Andrea Bacchi, Catherine Hess, and Jennifer Montagu, with the assistance of Anne-Lise Desmas Bernini’s portrait busts were masterpieces of technical virtuosity; at the same time, they ...

Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Figures 3, 9–17, 22–24, 28, 32, 33, 36, 38, 40, 51, and 54 are reproduced with the ...

Petra, Angkor, Copan, Venice, Lascaux, Easter Island—all are examples of irreplaceable cultural heritage built in stone and now slowly disappearing. In 1996 the Getty Conservation Institute published ...

Ancient Iran, historically known as Persia, was the dominant nation of western Asia for over twelve centuries, with three successive native dynasties—the Achaemenid, the Parthian, and the ...

Founded in 300 BC, Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey) was one of the most important political and cultural centers of the Greek East, and it became one of the great metropolises of the Roman Empire ...

One of the greatest challenges faced today by those responsible for ancient cultural sites is that of maintaining the delicate balance between conserving these fragile resources and making them ...

The twenty-three surviving drawings Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669) made of Mughal emperors, princes, and courtiers mark a watershed moment, when the Dutch master responded to art of a ...

This volume presents the life work of the late Ruth Johnston-Feller, one of the nation’s leading color scientists. It combines an overview of basic theoretical concepts with detailed, hands-on ...

AATA Online is a free research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. It has been managed and published by the Getty ...