J. Paul Getty Museum

Griffin, from the pages of Liber Floridus.
Lionizing the Bestiary
Bestiaries, allegorical texts with pages of illuminated animals—some real, like the lion, some mythical, like the griffin—were the bestsellers of their day. Until now, there has been no more…
Rogovin photographs
This Summer the Getty Museum Presents “Once. Again. Photographs in Series.”
Los Angeles – Artists have long used cameras to record change, documenting transformations in landscapes or intimate portraits of people at different times in their lives. Once. Again.
A carpet page from a ninth-century North African Qur'an
A Quest for Illumination
The Art of Three Faiths: A Torah, a Bible and a Qur’an is not merely an exhibition but represents the culmination of a thi
The Celestial Virgin and Child, about 1420. Tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Presents “The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts”
Los Angeles – The cosmos—full of shining stars and orbiting planets—inspired works of art and literature throughout the Middle Ages (about 500-1500).
J. Paul Getty Museum Acknowledges Armenian Apostolic Church’s Ownership of Eight Illuminated Pages
Getty’s Newly Acquired Northern Renaissance Masterpiece Goes on View
LOS ANGELES—The J.
Collecting and Transforming Medieval Manuscripts at The Getty
LOS ANGELES—For hundreds of years, medieval manuscripts have been bought and sold, gifted and stolen, preserved and rearranged, loved and forgotten, hidden and displayed, cut into pieces, hung on wall
Gospel Illumination Exhibit Opens