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Exhibition The Book of Marvels: Wonder and Fear in the Middle Ages

Detail of a medieval manuscript illustration surrounded by script showing landscape of hills, trees, and lakes populated by inhabitants and unusual creatures.
India (detail) from Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World), about 1460–1465, Master of the Geneva Boccaccio. Colored washes, gold, and ink. Getty Museum

Highlights from Getty’s Collection

Drawing, full body of a person with curly black hair, turned to the left and leaning against a stick

This sheet speaks to the artist's ceaseless interest in life's humanity and humility.

Ornate canopy bed, with draped blue curtains forming the canopy and blue upholstery on the gold bed frame

In the 1700s, grand beds like this one stood in deep niches in the bedroom of a palace or mansion belonging to wealthy patrons.

A statue of naked man petting a wolf and holding a large stick, photographed inside the Getty Villa gallery

This was found in 1790 near the ruins of the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian at Tivoli outside Rome.

Purple flowers with bright green leaves and stems.

Each one of Van Gogh’s irises is unique. He studied their movements and shapes to create a variety of curved silhouettes.

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