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The Icons of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt
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A Getty Museum film crew traveled to the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai Desert and captured scenes of traditions that have attracted pilgrims from around th...
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Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's Circus Drawings
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The circus was one of the great spectacles of late-nineteenth-century Paris, combining extraordinary acrobatic feats, amusing trained animals, and outlandish clowns. This c...
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Conservation of Jean-Baptiste Oudry's Rhinoceros Painting
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n 2001, two paintings by the 18th-century French artist Jean-Baptiste Oudry that had been rolled up and stored for over 150 years in the basement of the Staatliches Museum ...
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Conservation of Mosaics in Roman North Africa
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Since 1998 the Getty Conservation Institute has been working in partnership with the Institut National du Patrimoine to train conservation technicians to clean, monitor, an...
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Camilo Vergara Documents the Changing Urban Landscape
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In 1967, Camilo Vergara recorded the facade of a dilapidated building in South Bend, Indiana. In the decades since, he's photographed other urban structures--such as storef...
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Making a Molded Athenian Vase
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The word "plastic" comes from the Greek verb plasso, meaning, "I model," and describes vases made via molding, which allowed artisans to reproduce complex human, animal, or...
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P.H. Emerson's Naturalistic Photography
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P.H. Emerson (1856-1936) believed that "nothing in nature has a hard outline" and attempted to emulate natural eyesight by employing differential focus, wherein the subject...
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John Humble's Photographs of Los Angeles
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Photographer John Humble has been documenting the Los Angeles landscape since the 1970s. In these videos he talks about the city and the history of the Los Angeles River in...
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Bone, Flesh, Skin: The Making of Japanese Lacque
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Developed over the last 7,000 years, urushi or Japanese lacquer is made with toxic sap, powdered metals, bits of shell, and months or years of patient labor. Cultivated fro...
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Looking at Paintings
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How do artists create the illusion of depth on a flat surface? What are some of the ways that artists draw our attention to specific details? Discover the answers to these ...
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