Picture Worlds
Storytelling on Greek, Moche, and Maya Pottery
ISBN: PB: 9781606069059,
Getty Publications,
April 2024
208 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 113 colour illus.
208 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 113 colour illus.
This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side.
Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity figure in the stories painted on the pottery...
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£35.00
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Artists' Things
Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: PB: 9781606068632,
Getty Publications,
January 2024
374 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 140 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
374 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 140 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing...
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£50.00
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Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World
ISBN: PB: 9781606068427,
Getty Publications,
January 2024
296 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 56 colour illus., 54 black&white illus., 1 map
296 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 56 colour illus., 54 black&white illus., 1 map
With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ev...
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£55.00
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French Silver in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: PB: 9781606068281,
Getty Publications,
April 2023
178 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 277 colour illus., 4 tables
178 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 277 colour illus., 4 tables
The collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver at the J. Paul Getty Museum is of exceptional quality and state of preservation. Each piece is remarkable for its beauty, inventive form, skillful execution, illustrious provenance,...
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£50.00
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Persia
Ancient Iran and the Classical World
ISBN: HB: 9781606066805,
Getty Publications,
May 2022
432 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 300 colour illus.
432 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 300 colour illus.
The founding of the first Persian Empire by the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BCE established one of the greatest world powers of antiquity. Extending from the borders of Greece to northern India, Persia was seen by the Greeks...
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£55.00
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Underworld
Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting
ISBN: HB: 9781606067345,
Getty Publications,
January 2022
240 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, illus.
240 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, illus.
What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerber...
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£60.00
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French Rococo Ebenisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: PB: 9781606066300,
Getty Publications,
April 2021
372 pp., 0,0x0,0 cm
372 pp., 0,0x0,0 cm
The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum's significant collection of French Rococo ebenisterie furniture. This catalogue focuses on French ebenisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating from 1735 to 1760. These splendid objects directl...
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£65.00
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Golden Kingdoms
Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas
ISBN: HB: 9781606065488,
Getty Publications,
September 2017
320 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
320 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of art rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity u...
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£50.00
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Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: PB: 9781606065136,
Getty Publications,
August 2017
510 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 1 map, 56 line drawings
510 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 1 map, 56 line drawings
In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have m...
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£115.00
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Luxus
The Sumptuous Arts of Greece and Rome
ISBN: PB: 9781606064221,
Getty Publications,
July 2015
296 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 243 colour illus.
296 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 243 colour illus.
This elegantly produced book brings the luxury arts of antiquity back into brilliant life. In contrast to other histories of ancient art that typically privilege well-preserved works of ceramics or stone, "Luxus" offers an integrated contextual analy...
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£65.00
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