Terra 2022
Proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Earthen Architectural Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9781606069158,
Getty Publications,
April 2025
576 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 488 colour and 60 black&white illus.
576 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 488 colour and 60 black&white illus.
Earthen architecture is one of the oldest forms of construction and is evidenced around the globe. This volume gathers the research and presentations from Terra 2022: 13th World Congress on Earthen Architectural Heritage, which brought together in Sa...
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Ancient Roman Villas
The Essential Sourcebook
ISBN: PB: 9781606069370,
Getty Publications,
March 2025
424 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 30 colour illus.
424 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 30 colour illus.
While the term villa is generic today, its meaning extended across the entirety of ancient Roman life: villas supplied food, oil, and wine to towns and cities and produced raw materials for craft industries and building construction. Villas were also...
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Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: PB: 9781606069196,
Getty Publications,
February 2025
436 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 650 colour illus.
436 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 650 colour illus.
The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of ancient glass – astonishingly delicate, richly hued, and fancifully shaped-is among the most celebrated in the United States. With objects ranging from the Bronze Age to the medieval period (1500 BCE - 1000 CE...
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Guidelines for the Technical Examination of Bronze Sculpture
ISBN: PB: 9781606066904,
Getty Publications,
January 2025
518 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 468 colour illus., 80 charts, 15 diagrams
518 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 468 colour illus., 80 charts, 15 diagrams
Since the fourth millennium BCE, bronze has been the preferred medium for some of the most prestigious and sacred works of art. But only through interdisciplinary research can the fabrication of these extraordinary objects be properly investigated, i...
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Crossing Over
Art and Science at Caltech, 1920-2020
ISBN: PB: 9781606069424,
Getty Publications,
January 2025
352 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 250 colour illus.
352 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 250 colour illus.
Science is as much a visual practice as a textual or quantitative one. For centuries, scientists have used microscopes, telescopes, painting, illustration, printing, and photography to perceive nature and communicate what they see in it, often in col...
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Franklin D. Israel
A Life in Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9781606069264,
Getty Publications,
January 2025
296 pp., 25,4x24,1 cm, 151 colour and 100 black&white illus.
296 pp., 25,4x24,1 cm, 151 colour and 100 black&white illus.
Acclaimed Los Angeles architect Franklin D. Israel's (1945-1996) innovative residential projects and office interiors made him one of the most talked-about designers of his generation. In this vivid narrative, architectural historian Todd Gannon draw...
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Gustave Caillebotte
Painting Men
ISBN: HB: 9781606069448,
Getty Publications,
January 2025
240 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 195 colour illus.
240 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 195 colour illus.
More than any other French Impressionist, painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) observed and depicted the many men in his life, including his brothers and friends, employees, and the workers and bourgeois in his Parisian neighborhood. Male subjects...
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Paper and Light
Luminous Drawings
ISBN: PB: 9781606069301,
Getty Publications,
December 2024
112 pp., 24,1x21,6 cm, 82 colour illus.
112 pp., 24,1x21,6 cm, 82 colour illus.
The treatment of light and shadow is one of the building blocks of drawing. From techniques such as reserves, and highlights to material selection and the creation of translucent tracing paper, to the use of light as a medium for viewing artworks, ar...
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Ancient Thrace and the Classical World
Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece
ISBN: HB: 9781606069400,
Getty Publications,
November 2024
408 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 310 colour illus.
408 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 310 colour illus.
The Thracians – a collection of tribal peoples who inhabited territories north of ancient Greece, an area that comprises present-day Bulgaria, much of Romania, and parts of Greece and Turkey-were renowned for their skill as warriors and horsemen, as...
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Lumen
The Art and Science of Light, 800-1600
ISBN: HB: 9781606069288,
Getty Publications,
September 2024
288 pp., 30,5x24,8 cm, 225 colour illus.
288 pp., 30,5x24,8 cm, 225 colour illus.
Through the manipulation of materials, such as gold, crystal, and glass, medieval artists created dazzling light-filled environments, evoking, in the everyday world, the layered realms of the divine. While contemporary society separates science and s...
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