Calling All Art Enthusiasts!

Want to learn about Getty’s collection at home on your own schedule, or bring the collection into your classroom?

The J. Paul Getty Museum’s Education Department has partnered once again with Smarthistory, the premier destination for high-quality art history content for students and art enthusiasts around the country and throughout the world. Together, Smarthistory and Getty bring insights to online audiences about Getty’s collection.

This video series illuminates art history concepts through fun, unscripted conversations between art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists, committed to a fresh take on the history of visual arts.

Six new videos explore further into the Getty collection, highlighting works such as the Códice Maya de México, a sacred book that tracked and predicted the movements of the planet Venus, and marble and porcelain sculptures, Male Harp Player of the Early Spedos Type and A Fox with a Chicken.

“Getty is excited to continue our partnership with Smarthistory to bring our collection to students and art enthusiasts across the globe through six new engaging videos. This video series allowed us to feature the Códice Maya de México on view at the Getty Museum which had only been out of Mexico one other time in 50 years,” says Elizabeth Escamilla, assistant director for education and public programs. “Our partnership with Smarthistory helps Getty meet our goal to deliver high quality, engaging content that supports learning and inspires curiosity.”

Check out all 12 videos below.

Códice Maya de México

Male Harp Player of the Early Spedos Type

Meissen Porcelain Animals: A Fox with a Chicken

Maria Sybilla Merian’s Metamorphosis of a Small Emperor Moth on a Damson Plum

Malick Sidibe’s Vues de dos

Shigemi Uyeda’s Reflections on the Oil Ditch

Statue of a Victorious Youth

Van Gogh’s Irises

Claude Monet’s Wheatstacks (Snow Effect, Morning)

Muybridge, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion

Gospel Book

Mummy of Herakleides