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The Getty Villa activated its emergency operations center at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, and within two hours, the fast-moving blaze had reached the grounds. Here's how the staff, museum and precious art ...
The Getty Villa reopened Friday for the first time since January's devastating Palisades Fire. And after nearly six months without visitors, the museum is set to debut a new exhibit. The Villa had ...
The Getty Villa reopened to the public in 2006 after an eight-year, $275 million renovation and houses the J. Paul Getty Museum's extensive classical antiquities collection of Greek, Roman and ...
The Getty Villa has a lot of interesting background to it before it was an amazing museum filled with beautiful artwork, it was a house. The Getty Villa was founded by John Paul Getty in 1968 in his ...
The Getty Villa reports how Italians discovered the Villa dei Papiri: “The Villa dei Papiri was a sumptuous private residence on the Bay of Naples, just outside the Roman town of Herculaneum.
The unpredictable nature of the Getty fire and a dire warning of hurricane-strength Santa Ana winds have prompted the Getty Center and the Getty Villa to remain closed through Friday, museum ...
The Getty Villa does the same to wonderful effect. Bronze doors lead to the Outer Peristyle, an open-air marvel, and another recreation from the Villa dei Papyri, complete with copies of bronze ...
The Getty Villa does a U-turn on that — and I’m glad to see it. Ancient art is the centerpiece. The antiquities collection is what it is, and often it’s marvelous.
The Getty Villa is featuring ancient mosaics from the 2nd - 6th centuries A.D. These ancient mosaics decorated some of the mansions of the times, as well as public buildings in the Roman Empire.
The Getty Villa was originally opened to the public in 1974, and it was long a favorite destination of California art lovers, though some critics condemned it as a Roman Disneyland.