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True, Marion; Gribbon, Deborah

 
9780892366644: The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection
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ISBN 10: 0892366648 ISBN 13: 9780892366644
Editorial: Getty Publishing, 2002

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Paul Getty bought his first classical antiquity - a small terracotta sculpture - at auction in London in 1939. Over the next four decades, he became a passionate collector, and in the 1950s he created a trust for "the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge". Building on that early foundation, successive antiquities curators at the Getty Museum have amassed a collection that contains more than 50,000 ancient objects. In prose accompanied by a colour photograph of each object, this handbook of the Antiquities Collection presents nearly 200 of the Getty Museum's most important pieces, including J. Paul Getty's most prized possession, the "Lansdowne Herakles". Spanning thousands of years - from pre-classical times as far back as the third millennium BC through the 3rd century AD - the Getty Antiquities Collection encompasses the Cycladic, Greek, Etruscan, South Italian, Roman and Romano-Egyptian cultures. It includes ancient Greek vases; monumental marble sculptures and diminutive bronzes; Greek and Roman gems; and Hellenistic silverware, jewellery and glass. The handbook includes a foreword by museum director Deborah Gribbon and an introduction tracing the history of the collection by antiquities curator Marion True.

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Deborah Gribbon is museum director. Marion True is antiquities curator.

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Getty Publishing
Año de publicación
2002
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ISBN 10 
0892366648
ISBN 13 
9780892366644
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Número de páginas
272
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