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Perfectly proportioned and scantily clad with wrinkle-free skin. And those are just the patrons. Excuse the joke. America’s modern stereotype of Los Angelenos pairs nicely with a dazzling exhibit on display through January 27, 2019 at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles: The Renaissance Nude. With masterworks on loan from the Louvre, The Met, t...

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Italy’s highest court has ordered that a centerpiece of the Getty Villa’s art collection, a prized bronze sculpture more than 2,000 years old, should be returned to Italy in a ruling that could lead to a trans-Atlantic transfer or a diplomatic standoff. The statue, named “Victorious Youth” but often referred to as the Getty Bronze, is on display at...

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From Wednesday, October 31, 2018 to Monday, March 18, 2019. From 9:00 am To 5:00 pm. Entrance: Free. J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049. What did ancient Greeks believe would happen to them after they died? Organized around a monumental funerary vessel, on loan from National Archaeological Museum in Naples and recent...

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When: From Saturday, October 27, 2018 to Sunday, January 27, 2019 - Time: From 9:00 am To 5:00 pm - Where: The J. Paul Getty Museum Inspired by a renewed interest in classical sculpture and closer study of nature, Renaissance artists made the nude body ever more vibrant, lifelike, and central to their practice. Yet, pious European Renaissance socie...

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Il Satiro ebbro custodito al Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), proveniente della Villa dei Papiri di Pompei, in esposizione dal 2019 alla Villa Getty di Malibu, ricostruzione della rovina pompeiana voluta dal filantropo Jean Paul Getty. Poi l'accordo tra il porto di Los Angeles e quelli della Campania per scambiarsi buone pratiche. Inf...

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Prosecutors have announced that an order issued last week to seize an ancient Greek statue for years disputed by Italy and the Getty Museum in Malibu is "immediately executive". "The Lysippus statue must return to Italy," prosecutors told ANSA on Thursday, accompanied by Tristano Tonnini, the lawyer for the association "Cento Città", which has been...

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Il celebre Museo Getty di Los Angeles ospita, dal 27 marzo al 9 settembre, un’ importante mostra dedicata all’ Antico Egitto ed alle reciproche influenze che, per vari secoli, si verificarono fra Egitto, Grecia e Roma. La mostra, il cui titolo e’ “ Beyond the Nile Egypt and the Classical World ", presenta importanti reperti provenienti in gran part...

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Thursday announced the gift of six rare Italian manuscript illustrations that will go on display in December. The gift, from collectors James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell, were originally pages from a choir book made around 1400 for the Carthusian monastery of Santo Spirito in Farneta, Italy. The book was commissioned by Nic...

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The conference comemorates the six-houndredth anniversary of the birth of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini, who occupied a central position in the history of the Italian Renaissance. Organaized by Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA) and Bryan Keene (The J. Paul Getty Museum), in collaboration with the IIC Los Angeles. Advanced regist...

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An iconic visual rendering of perhaps the world’s most famous underdog story comes to Los Angeles this week. David with the Head of Goliath, by famed Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio (1571-1610), will be on view at the Getty Centeralongside two of the artist’s other masterpieces. In the work, a young man with his chest half-draped in a billowing...

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