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Getty Center closed.
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March 3, 2008 |
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Etruscan Pithos Spotlight Talk
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through March 31, 2008
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This 20-minute gallery talk introduces ways of looking at ancient art through an in-depth exploration of one object in the collection. This month the featured object is the Lidded Storage Jar with the Blinding of Polyphemos from 650–625 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store beginning at 1:15 p.m.
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Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
This 40-minute tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, focusing on its architecture and educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
This 40-minute tour explores the architecture and gardens of the Getty Villa and their historical prototypes. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 30, 2008
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Offered in English and Spanish on weekends. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:45 p.m.
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Focus Tour: Saffron Gowns and Cuirassed Torsos: Costumes in Classical Antiquity
Monday March 3, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour highlights the impact of clothes and costuming in the lives of Greeks and Romans. From the well-dressed to the undressed, clothing and style communicated political ambition, athletic victory, and the elegance of nobility. Artistic realization of these messages inspired many of the most stunning objects in the Museum's collection. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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The Magnificent Piranesi
Daily through March 10, 2008
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Architect, archaeologist, polemicist, and printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778) was a lifelong champion of Rome. He published more than a thousand etchings of the 18th-century city and ancient Roman monuments. These prints reveal the innovative and visionary side of Piranesi, who readily exaggerated features of the sites and objects he documented. Unusual in scale, his images were often so magnificent that tourists who had seen them before visiting Rome were sometimes left disappointed by the actual city. Featuring impressive examples of Piranesi's books and prints in the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition presents an overview of his extraordinary range of activities: from penning polemics and recording archaeological data to sketching dramatic views, imagining prisons, and creating stylish advertisements for his wares.
 Learn more about this exhibition
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