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...
View ArticleReclining 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....
View ArticleVoting 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThree 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...
View ArticleGetting 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...
View ArticleAUDIO: 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.
View ArticleAncient 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...
View ArticleL.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...
View ArticleStilt-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...
View ArticleForensic 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...
View ArticleAncient 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...
View Article10 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleUncovering 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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