Getty Villa

The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California, USA, is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty Villa is an educational center and museum that covers the arts and cultures of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The collection has 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD. The UCLA/Getty Master’s Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation is here. The online GettyGuide as well as through audio tours tell about the items owned by the museum. Collection The collection has 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD. Among the outstanding items is Victorious Youth, one of few life-size Greek bronze statues to have survived to modern times. The Lansdowne Heracles is a Roman sculpture that was probably copied from an older Greek statue. The Villa also has jewelry and coin collections. The Villa's library has 20,000 books covering art from these periods. The Villa also displays the 'Getty kouros', which the museum lists as "Greek, about 530 B.C., or modern forgery" because scientific analysis is inconclusive as to whether the marble statue can be dated back to Greek times. If genuine, the Getty kouros is one of only twelve remaining intact kouroi. The Marbury Hall Zeus is a 81 in (2.1 m) tall marble statue that was recovered from the ruins at Tivoli near Rome. GettyGuide The "GettyGuide" has detailed information about the items owned by the museum. This is available both at the Museum, at various points known as "GettyGuide stations", and externally on its website. Photographs References Further reading Filler, Martin (2007). Makers of modern architecture. New York Review of Books. ISBN 9781590172278. Moltesen, Mette (January 2007). "The Reopened Getty Villa". American Journal of Archaeology. 111 (1). Boston Massachusetts: The Archaeological Institute of America: 155–159. doi:10.3764/aja.111.1.155. ISSN 0002-9114. S2CID 191373656. Retrieved 2011-06-24. Storrie, Calum (2008). The Delirious Museum: A Journey from the Louvre to Las Vegas. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781845115098. Other websites J. Paul Getty Trust official website A four-part documentary about the villa and its Roman model, the Villa of the Papyri Archived 2020-08-01 at the Wayback Machine Photos from the Getty Villa flickr.com photos tagged with "Getty Villa"