A serious problem facing museum professionals is the protection of collections from damage due to insects. This book describes successful insect eradication procedures developed at the Getty ...

The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant-garde ...

Tuesday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. The peoples of ancient Mexico used polished obsidian mirrors, or tezcatl, as instruments of divination.

Edited by David A. Scott, Jerry Podany, and Brian B. Considine ...

Art and the people must form an entity … The aim is an alliance of the arts under the wing of great architecture. 1 Walter Gropius, et al. The school officially opened on April 1, 1919. In a rousing ...

Romans loved their gardens, whether they were the grand gardens of imperial country estates or the small private spaces tucked behind city houses. They treasured gardens both as places for relaxation ...

This text is based on notes and sketches prepared for an undergraduate course titled "Chemistry of the Environment and of Cultural Property," which Giorgio Torraca taught at the "Valle Giulia" Faculty ...

Recently, exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum and at UCLA displayed the rich character and diversity of Bibles—both in terms of illuminated manuscripts and printed copies over the course of a ...

The nude—the unclothed or partially clothed human body—has been featured in European art for millennia. After 1400, with the waning of the Middle Ages, artists depicted nudes as increasingly ...

In 1828 a young architect, Heinrich Hübsch, published a polemical study in which he suggested that the rapid technological progress of the early nineteenth century, combined with changed living habits ...

After defeating the Trojans in an intense, ten-year war, the Greeks’ courageous leader, Ulysses, king of Ithaca, begins the voyage home with his soldiers. There his faithful wife, Penelope, and his ...

Conservation is a core value for most archaeological societies. It is highlighted in their codes of ethics, statements of mission, and governance. In recognition of this, the World Archaeological ...