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Director. Timothy Potts. Website. www.getty.edu /museum /. The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in Los Angeles, California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. [ 1 ] It is operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust, the world's wealthiest art institution.
The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion center opened to the public on December 16, 1997, [2] and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. The center sits atop a hill connected to a visitors' parking garage at the ...
The Getty Villa is an educational center and art museum located at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. [ 2 ] One of two campuses of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Villa is dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria.
The J. Paul Getty Trust is the world's wealthiest art institution, with an estimated endowment of US$7.7 billion in 2020. [4] Based in Los Angeles, California, it operates the J. Paul Getty Museum, which has two locations—the Getty Center in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The Getty kouros is an over-life-sized statue in the form of a late archaic Greek kouros. [1] The dolomitic marble sculpture was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, in 1985 for ten million dollars and first exhibited there in October 1986. [2][3][4] Despite initial favourable scientific analysis of the patina and aging ...
Lansdowne Heracles. The Lansdowne Heracles is a Roman marble sculpture of about 125 CE. Today it is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum 's Getty Villa on the Malibu Coast, Los Angeles. The statue represents the hero Heracles as a beardless Lysippic [ 1][ 2][ 3] youth grasping the skin of the Nemean lion with his club upon his shoulder.
The Victorious Youth, also known as the Atleta di Fano, the Lisippo di Fano, or the Getty Bronze, is a Greek bronze sculpture, made between 300 and 100 BCE, [ 1] in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, displayed at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California. The Victorious Youth was found in the summer of 1964 in the sea off Fano ...
Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum — artworks located in Los Angeles, at: the Getty Center complex in Brentwood; or the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades . Both are Getty Museum gallery and garden campuses of the J. Paul Getty Trust, and both communities are within the City of Los Angeles and the Westside LA region of southern California.