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Looking at Apulian Vases in a New Light

Since 2008, the antiquities conservation and curatorial departments at the J. Paul Getty Museum have been working with colleagues at the Antikensammlung in Berlin to study and conserve a group of South...

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Reclining and Dining (and Drinking) in Ancient Greece

View of the inside of a kylix (stemmed wine cup) by the painter Onesimos, made in Athens, about 500 B.C. Elite Greeks and Romans reclined to dine, and ordinary people copied them when they could....

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Voting with the Ancient Greeks

Voting with psephoi (pebbles) in a scene from the Wine Cup with the Suicide of Ajax, about 490 B.C., attributed to the Brygos Painter. Red-figured kylix made in Athens. Terracotta, 4 7/16 in. high x 12...

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A Winged Chariot, Wilshire Boulevard, and a Shipwreck: The Travels of...

Spared two centuries ago from being lost at sea, a Greek vase makes the crosstown trip from the Miracle Mile to Malibu Red-Figure Neck-Amphora with Triptolemos Attended by Demeter and Persephone, about...

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Three Ways to Avoid the Freeways: Transport Advice from Apulian Vases

Intricate paintings on large South Italian vases offer some alternative suggestions for transport over air, sea, and land Funerary Vessel with Herakles Slaying Geryon; the Calydonian Boar Hunt; and...

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Getting to Know the Gela Krater

Leading Spotlight Talks was one of my many tasks as a Multicultural Undergraduate Intern in the Education Department at the Getty Villa this summer. These talks are interactive discussions between an...

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AUDIO: Art and Performance in Classical Greece

Works of art offer a tantalizing window onto the world of ancient Greek theater, providing rich clues to the stories, music, costumes, masks, and actors of ancient tragedies, satyr plays, and comedies.

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Ancient Greek Pottery Lends Its Secrets to Future Space Travel

Attic pottery, the iconic red- and black-figure vessels produced in ancient Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries B.C., like this storage jar at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and this mixing vessel in...

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L.A. Teachers Explore Greek Vases in the Collections Store Room at the Getty...

Eleven teachers enter an underground room at the Getty Villa. In a space with wooden crates marked “fragile” sits a large table. They are asked to put on latex gloves as an aura of anticipation fills...

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Stilt-Walking Actors Extend Their Stay at the Getty Villa

The Art of Ancient Greek Theater closed on January 3, but one loan object from the exhibition won’t be making its way back home for a while. An Attic black-figured amphora, or storage vessel, from the...

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Forensic Techniques Illuminate a New Acquisition

The recently acquired white-ground lekythos on display in Women and Children in Antiquity (Gallery 207) at the Getty Villa is a handsome addition to the Museum’s antiquities collection. With its narrow...

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Ancient Vase Presents a Who’s Who of the Underworld

When, during his exhausting journey home from Troy, Odysseus wished to gain access to the Underworld, he had to travel far to the west on the shores of Ocean and dig a pit. Into this, he was told to...

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10 Ways to Look at Ancient Greek Vases

One of the new spaces in the reinstalled Getty Villa is Gallery 103, a former coat-check area that has been converted into a room for the display of Athenian pottery. In devising the chronological and...

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An Investigation of Black Figures in Classical Greek Art

In ancient Greece, men often escaped their daily grind to socialize at a symposium, or formalized drinking party. In the symposium, revelers indulged in numerous leisure activities centered around the...

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Uncovering Ancient Preparatory Drawings on Greek Ceramics

The Getty Villa’s stunning new installation of the wares made by the potters and painters of Athens thousands of years ago showcases how expertly these gleaming red and black surfaces were made. But...

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