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September 27, 2006 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Plaisance: Aristocratic Landscapes of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance (Seminar)
Wednesday September 27, 2006
3 pm - 5 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Through an in-depth interpretation of sites, images, and texts, William Tronzo, visiting professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, explores some of the most important creations of the landscape arts of the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The natural environment, particularly the designed landscape or garden, assumed a new importance in this period in the functions of court life and in the activities, attitudes, and aesthetic predispositions of courtiers. Complements the exhibition Landscape in the Renaissance.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Drawing From the Old Masters: Drawing the Head
Wednesday September 27, 2006
1 pm - 3:30 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center
Join artist Glenn Vilppu and learn to draw the human head in a step-by-step process focusing on placement, proportion, and construction, including the development of planes and basic anatomy. Participants will engage in guided drawing lessons in the studio and in the galleries. Course fee $20. Open to 25 participants.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 30, 2007
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
This is a 45-minute tour of the architecture and Richard Meier's design of the Getty Center. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance of the Museum.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
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 Museum Information Desk.
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Garden Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center
This is a 45-minute tour of the Getty gardens, including Robert Irwin's Central Garden. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance of the Museum.
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Casting Nature and the Decorative Arts Collection
Daily through October 29, 2006
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Casting Nature: François-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Neoclassical Art
Wednesdays through November 15, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on Neoclassical art made between 1750 and 1820, when Europeans on the Grand Tour encountered works from the ancient past that inspired a new artistic style. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through October 1, 2006
4 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This 15-minute gallery talk offers an in-depth look at one object. This week the featured work of art is The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Palazzo Bembo by Francesco Guardi. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Daily through August 5, 2007
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition traces the study of one Getty object to determine its date and place of manufacture. The cabinet, acquired in 1971, had since the 1980s been believed to be a pastiche if not an outright fake. However, documentary research and technical analysis undertaken by experts at the Getty revealed that the cabinet, rather than being a compromised object, is one of the most important pieces of French Renaissance furniture in the United States. This case study of the research into the authenticity of the cabinet presents the results of scientific and visual analyses of the object, studies of related materials, archival research, and other evidence. It is a story of how new information, careful research, and evolving analytic processes can alter our understanding of the art of the past.
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2008
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This installation of antiquities demonstrates the relationship of ancient art to later work, showing some of the themes, techniques, and motifs borrowed by later artists—from mythology to decorative design—and the approach to the human figure known today as the classical ideal. This permanent collection installation is on view in the North Pavilion.
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Casting Nature: François-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent
Daily through March 25, 2007
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition highlights the recent acquisition of a unique silver sculpture, La Machine d'Argent (1754), made by the French royal silversmith François-Thomas Germain (1726–1791). In the tradition of trophies of the hunt, the piece represents an assemblage of two game birds, a rabbit, and vegetables. The exhibition places the significance, beauty, and naturalistic virtuosity of La Machine d'Argent within the context of French mid-18th-century art, as illustrated through select loans of paintings and prints along with other works in silver and gilt bronze in the Getty Museum's collection.
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Landscape in the Renaissance
Daily through October 15, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The Renaissance witnessed a renewed awareness of the visible world and a pressing need to describe natural phenomena—rain, atmosphere, and the play of light—faithfully and with conviction. This exhibition explores the rapid and exciting development of landscape settings in art of the Renaissance, especially through examples in the Getty Museum's collection of illuminated manuscripts.
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A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists
Daily through January 7, 2007
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
In a manifesto of 1912, the Italian Futurists advocated the destruction of poetic convention and linguistic logic in the creation of a new literary genre that was both visual and verbal: the parole in libertà (words-in-freedom). These visual poems deployed explosive language, inventive typography, and unorthodox design to evoke the modern experience of speeding trains, airplanes, factories, bombs, and the urban cafe. This exhibition of manuscripts, drawings, rare books, and journals from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute features various experiments in the genre, including BIF&ZF+18 by Ardengno Soffici, "Fabbrica + Treno" by Angelo Rognoni, and Zang Tumb Tumb by F.T. Marinetti, leader of the Italian Futurist movement. The poems range in theme from the battlefields of World War I to the everyday life of the Futurist artist-poet and are analyzed in terms of their political context and technical characteristics.
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September 27, 2006 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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