The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum’s permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, photographs, and sculpture and works of art. It includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s acquisitions from 1985. Volume 15 includes articles written by Jeffery Spier, Michael Pfrommer, Cornelius C. Vermeule, Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Robert S. Nelson, Carl Brandon Stehlke, Peter Sutton, John T. Spike, Victor Carlson, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, and Herbert Keutner.

• ANTIQUITIES
• A Byzantine Pendant in the J. Paul Getty Museum
  Jeffery Spier
• Kopie oder Nachshöpfung. Eine Bronzekanne im J. Paul Getty Museum
  Michael Pfrommer
• The God Apollo, a Ceremonial Table with Griffins, and a Votive Basin
  Cornelius C. Vermeule
• DECORATIVE ARTS
• Two Pieces of Porcelain Decorated by Ignaz Preissler in the J. Paul Getty Museum
  Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
• MANUSCRIPTS
• Theoktistos and Associates in Twelfth-Century Constantinople: An Illustrated New Testament of A.D. 1133
  Robert S. Nelson
• PAINTINGS
• A Celibate Marriage and Franciscan Poverty Reflected in a Neapolitan Treccento Diptych
  Carl Brandon Stehlke
• The Noblest of Livestock
  Peter Sutton
• The Blessed Bernard Tolomei Interceding for the Cessation of the Plauge in Siena: A Rediscovered Painting by Giuseppe Maria Crespi
  John T. Spike
• A Roman Masterpiece by Hubert Robert: A Hermit Praying in the Ruins of a Roman Temple
  Victor Carlson
• PHOTOGRAPHS
• True Illusions: Early Photographs of Athens
  Andrew Szegedy-Maszak
• SCULPTURE AND WORKS OF ART
• Die Bathseba des Giovanni Bologna
  Herbert Keutner
• ACQUSITIONS/1986
  • Introduction
  • Notes to the Reader
  • Antiquities
  • Manuscripts
  • Paintings
  • Drawings
  • Decorative Arts
  • Sculpture and Works of Art
  • Photographs
• Trustees and Staff List