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Madonna and Child Visit from Hearst Castle
Starting tomorrow, a golden Virgin and Child from Duccio di Buoninsegna’s workshop will be adorning the Getty Center paintings galleries (North Pavilion, Gallery 201). Madonna and Child, school of...
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Getty Voices: Digging the Sacred
Getty Voices presents first-person perspectives by members of the Getty community in weekly rotation. This week, educator Erin Branham excavates the sacred, magical, and mysterious in the classical...
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Mystery Cults and the Mother Goddess
Orphic Prayer Sheet, Greek, 350–300 B.C. Gold, 1 7/16 x 7/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 75.AM.19. Gift of Lenore Barozzi Ancient Greek religion was, by definition, public and communal. Worship was...
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Myth and Miraculous Performance: The Virgin Hodegetria
This icon of the Virgin Mary has a fascinating story, closely intertwined with the history of Byzantine art and religion “She Who Points the Way.” Wall Fragment with the Virgin Mary and Coats of Arms,...
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Medieval Meditations on the Human Condition
In honor of Day With(out) Art, a selection of exquisitely beautiful manuscript illuminations that remind us what it means to truly live Initial D: A Skull from Gualenghi-d’Este Hours, Taddeo Crivelli,...
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Andrea del Sarto’s Seductive Saints
Lowbrow thoughts on highbrow art Best known for his solemn religious paintings, Andrea del Sarto—the focus of the exhibition closing soon at the Getty and opening at The Frick Collection this fall—is...
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Depicting the Sacred through Fabric
What explains this intriguing drawing featuring nine precisely rendered variations of Christ’s loincloth? Studies of Christ’s Loincloth, about 1490, Master of the Coburg Roundels. Pen and brown and...
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Global Pathways through Medieval Manuscripts and the Modern Museum
A new exhibition of book arts explores worldwide artistic, cultural, and religious connections in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Map highlighting major centers of book use and production presented in...
View ArticleHave You Seen an Illuminated Manuscript Lately?
The Getty Center is one of few places in the United States where you can see medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts year-round. With three or four exhibitions per year drawn almost...
View ArticleMadonna and Child Visit from Hearst Castle
Starting tomorrow, a golden Virgin and Child from Duccio di Buoninsegna’s workshop will be adorning the Getty Center paintings galleries (North Pavilion, Gallery 201). Paintings by Duccio are...
View ArticleGetty Voices: Digging the Sacred
"I can really appreciate the ancient system where borrowing, amalgamating, and generally mixing it up was perfectly acceptable."
View ArticleMystery Cults and the Mother Goddess
Only initiates could take part in the rites of the mystery cult, and they were forbidden to ever speak of what occurred.
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