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The education department seeks to inspire all of our audiences to engage with our collection and exhibitions through programs and resources at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa museums. This free ...

The nude—the unclothed or partially clothed human body—has been featured in European art for millennia. After 1400, with the waning of the Middle Ages, artists depicted nudes as increasingly ...

Terry J. Reedy was a consulting statistician from 1979 to 1989 in the Biomathematics Unit of the Center for Ulcer Research and Education in the School of Medicine, University of California at Los ...

The Villa dei Papiri was a sumptuous private residence on the Bay of Naples, just outside the Roman town of Herculaneum. Deeply buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, it was rediscovered ...

In 1896, Otto Wagner’s Modern Architecture shocked the European architectural community with its impassioned plea for an end to eclecticism and for a “modern” style suited to contemporary needs and ...

Alfred Stieglitz, The Hand of Man, 1902, Gelatin silver print , c. 1933, 8.3 x 11.3 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes is intended ...

Ancient Iran, historically known as Persia, was the dominant nation of western Asia for over twelve centuries, with three successive native dynasties—the Achaemenid, the Parthian, and the ...

Spark creativity, joy, and imagination with these hands-on art projects inspired by Getty art. Ideal for children ages six to twelve.

Michelangelo Buonarroti is recognized as one of the most creative and influential artists in the history of Western art. His most celebrated creations have become icons of world culture: the ...

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The lesson plan and downloadable materials on this page are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students are tested on ...