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Getty Provenance Index which holds records of collections, auction sales and other information for researching the art market and the provenance of works. [43] The Getty Research Portal provides free access to fully digitized art history texts in the public domain. The database launched in 2012 and is a collaboration with libraries that are ...
Short title: A guide to the knowledge of pottery, porcelain, and other objects of vertu : comprising an illustrated catalogue of the Bernal collection of works of art, with the prices at which they were sold by auction, and the names of the present possessors : to which are added an introductory essay on pottery and porcelain, and an engraved list of marks and monograms
The Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA) is a project by the Getty Research Institute to create a controlled vocabulary containing authority records for cultural works, including architecture and movable works such as paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, textiles, ceramics, furniture, other visual media such as frescoes and architectural sculpture, performance ...
Title pages printed in red and black Compiled and edited by Francesco Muttoni and Giorgio Fossati--Cf. v.4, p. i Vol. 3 is a comparison by Muttoni of the orders of architecture of Vitruvius, Giacomo Barocci, Sebastiano Serlio, Palladio, and Vincenzo Scamozzio
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.
It safely withstood one test, in October 2019, when a brush fire started along Interstate 405 near the Getty Center's access road, and burned 745 acres (3 square km), earning the name the Getty Fire.
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Short title: Strawberry Hill, the renowned seat of Horace Walpole : Mr. George Robins is honoured by having been selected by the Earl of Waldegrave, to sell by public competition, the valuable contents of Strawberry Hill : and it may fearlessly be proclaimed as the most distinguished gem that has ever adorned the annals of auctions.