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1. GCENS_150707_010.JPG: J. Paul Getty, 1939 Pier Gabriele Vangelli
2. GCENS_150707_014.JPG: This museum is a memorial to J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) whose collection forms its core and whose legacy has made possible its continued growth. At his wish the J. Paul Getty Museum from its foundation in Malibu in 1954 to its expansion there in 1974 to the opening of these buildings at the Getty Center in 1997 has been dedicated to delighting and educating its visitors.
3. GCENS_150707_025.JPG: Bust of a Young Man, about 1520 Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari-Bonacolsi)
4. GCENS_150707_029.JPG: Bust of a Man, 1526-35 Girolamo della Robbia
5. GCENS_150707_034.JPG: Head of a Man (Possibly a Portrait of Cicero), about 1515 Attributed to Conrat Meit
6. GCENS_150707_038.JPG: Saint John the Baptist, about 1525 Master of the Harburger Altar
7. GCENS_150707_053.JPG: Saint Cyrius, about 1470-80 Francesco Laurana
8. GCENS_150707_065.JPG: Bust of Maria Cerri Capranica, about 1640 Attributed to Alessandro Algardi
9. GCENS_150707_079.JPG: Bust of Pope Paul V, 1621 Gian Lorenzo Bernini Bernini was twenty-three when his most important patron, Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577-1633), commissioned this portrait bust of his recently deceased uncle, Paul V (1552-1621; reigned 1605-1621). The pope wears the traditional cope decorated with figures of the saintly patrons of Rome, the apostles Peter, with his keys, and Paul, holding the sword of his martyrdom. His hair is cut in the "tonsure of St. Peter," which signified the renunciation of worldly fashion. The powerful liveliness of the subject, whom Bernini had met, and the subtle surface treatment are characteristic of the artists' exceptional mastery in portraiture and skills in carving marble. This masterpiece was kept in the Villa Borghese in Rome until 1893 and then sold. Its whereabouts have been unknown until its discovery in early 2014. From http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21656128-important-17th-century-carving-gets-attention-it-merits-last-getty-got-it-good Gian Lorenzo Bernini Getty got it, good An important 17th-century carving gets the attention it merits at last Jun 27th 2015 IT IS not every day that you get a phone call announcing the discovery of a long-lost Baroque masterpiece, even if you are the director of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. When Alexander Kader, Sotheby's head of European sculpture, rang Timothy Potts, the boss of the Getty, in March, saying he might have found Gian Lorenzo Bernini's first marble carving of a pope, Mr Potts booked himself on a plane to London. "Bernini was the master of the ‘speaking likeness'," he says. "He found a way of breathing life into marble, of capturing the essence of a person. Not just the physical likeness of the pope, but his personality and stature, his benevolent seriousness and living presence. It makes you go weak at the knees when you see it, even if you know nothing of the artist." Pope Paul V's nephew, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, commissioned the sculpture shortly after the pope's death in 1621. On its completion it was displayed in Villa Borghese alongside another famous Bernini bust of the cardinal himself. In 1893, when the family fell on hard times, it was sold at auction in Rome, having first been photographed for the catalogue. Along with this snapshot, the bust was also known by a bronze version now in the National Gallery of Denmark and through the original records of its commission. In 1916 the sculpture was written up by an art historian, Antonio Mu�oz, who claimed it was in a private collection in Vienna. Then the trail disappears. When the Getty put on its first major exhibition of Bernini sculpture in 2008, the Paul V bust was represented only by the photograph of 1893. It turns out, though, that despite the vicissitudes of the second world war and the advent of communism, the bust had survived in perfect condition in Bratislava, not an hour's drive from Vienna. A Slovakian artist, Ernest Zemtak, kept it in his home. In 2014, a decade after he died, his heirs sold it at auction in the city, though with the lesser attribution, "after Bernini". Bought by a private collector with a good eye and a connection to Sotheby's, it was soon brought to London where Mr Kader put it on a shelf in his office. "You stand eye to eye with him, and all you can do is look at the detail. The representation of the face is so lifelike: the wrinkles around the eyes, the last little bit of carving on the hair or the moustache made with the lightest touch of the chisel. No one but Bernini could have done that." The Getty, having bought it privately through Sotheby's, put it in pride of place on June 18th, not in the sculpture gallery on the ground floor, but upstairs, surrounded by the museum's great Baroque paintings: Guercino's portrait of Pope Paul's successor, Gregory XV, and Anthony van Dyck's portrait of Agostino Pallavicini. The pieces were all completed within two or three years of each other, visual proof of the height of Rome's Baroque moment.
10. GCENS_150707_090.JPG: Susanna and the Elders, about 1690 Francis van Bossuit
11. GCENS_150707_096.JPG: Bust of Jacob van Reygersberg, 1671 Rombout Verhulst
12. GCENS_150707_107.JPG: Best of a Man, about 1750-1800
13. GCENS_150707_109.JPG: Terracottas and Marble Statuettes for Private Interiors in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Throughout history, clay has served artists as the preferred material to being a sculpture because of the ease with which it can be shaped and subsequently used as a marble for works in other mediums, such as bronze or marble. During the second half of the eighteenth century, interest in terracotta (fired clay) spread in France and then throughout Europe. Within their interiors, private collectors displayed not only models but also full-fledged sculptural works in terracotta -- figures, groups, and even portraits. There was an appreciation for both those with highly finished surfaces and those with rough surfaces still bearing the marks of the tools and fingers sculptors used to model the wet clay. Marble statuettes made for collectors were quite rare: only wealthy patrons could afford them. Often depicting mythological and allegorical theme, those small-scale works demonstrated a sculptor's stone-carving virtuosity.
14. GCENS_150707_111.JPG: Allegorical Group with a Portrait Bust of an Architect, about 1780-1800
15. GCENS_150707_131.JPG: Minerva, about 1770 Augustin Pajou
16. GCENS_150707_134.JPG: Bust of Juliette Recamier, about 1801-02 Joseph Chinard
17. GCENS_150707_143.JPG: The Vexed Man, about 1770 Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
18. GCENS_150707_156.JPG: Bust of a Man, 1758 Francis Harwood
19. GCENS_150707_174.JPG: Venus Reclining on a Sea Monster with Cupid and a Pluto, 1787/88-1790 John Deare
20. GCENS_150707_180.JPG: Apollo Crowning Himself, 1781-82 Antonio Canova
21. GCENS_150707_181.JPG: Fragment of a Base with the Indian Triumph of Dionysos, mid-second century Artist unknown
22. GCENS_150707_197.JPG: Venus, 1773 Joseph Nollekens
23. GCENS_150707_224.JPG: Double Portrait of the Artists' Daughters, 1889 Adolf von Hildebrand
24. GCENS_150707_227.JPG: Medusa, 1911 Vincenzo Gemito
25. GCENS_150707_230.JPG: Python Killing a Gnu, 1834-35 Antoine-Louis Barye
26. GCENS_150707_234.JPG: Model for a Monument to Alexandre Dumas, pere, about 1883 Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
27. GCENS_150707_238.JPG: Head of Saint John the Baptist, 1869 Jean-Baptise Chatigny, called Joanny
28. GCENS_150707_246.JPG: Self-Portrait as Midas, probably 1885 Jean-Joseph Carries
29. GCENS_150707_250.JPG: Adolescent I, about 1891 George Minne
30. GCENS_150707_253.JPG: Small Eve, about 1883-85 Auguste Rodin
31. GCENS_150707_273.JPG: Bust of Emperor Caracalla, about 1750-70 Bartolomeo Cavaceppi
32. GCENS_150707_277.JPG: Head with Horns, about 1895-97 Paul Gauguin
33. GCENS_150707_280.JPG: Christ and Mary Magdalene, 1908 Auguste Rodin
34. GCENS_150707_286.JPG: Christ and Mary Magdalene, 1908 Auguste Rodin Rodin called this group Christ and Mary Magdalene but also The Genius and Pity and Promotheus and the Oceanid. These themes, mixing the sacred and the profane, relate to Rodin's conception of the creative life, which in his view inevitably involved suffering and martyrdom. Karl Wittgenstein (German, 1847-1913); father of the famous philosopher Ludwig and pianist Paul) commissioned this marble for his private collection in Vienna. One of the richest industrialists of his time, Wittgenstein was a significant patron of the arts and also owned paintings by Gustav Klimt. Unlike most of Rodin's works, this group was never cast in bronze and only one other marble version exists, in the Tyssen-Bornemisza collection in Madrid.
35. GCENS_150707_290.JPG: Look at how the two bodies, naked, are pressed closely together although a space is left between the two abdomens. The compelling strength of this group results from the stark contrast between the highly polished surfaces of the naked flesh and the surrounding rough-hewn marble. This ingenious use of the non finito ("unfinished") reflects the critical impact that the sculptures of Michelangelo (Italian, 1475-1564) had on Rodin during his trip to Italy in 1876.
36. GCENS_150707_299.JPG: Examine the surfaces of this rough-hewn block of marble. The back and sides of the block were left rough and unpolished, yet this effect was not random. Note the deep, evenly spaced craters that were made with single strikes of a point chisel, imparting a uniformly rough texture to the surface. On the top of the sculpture, the flat, smooth plane was formed by fine parallel saw-cut lines from the marble quarry. This smooth surface provides evidence of the block's original height.
37. GCENS_150707_303.JPG: Observe the subtle rendering in marble of the long hair over the hand of Mary Magdalene and the body of Christ. In order to honor his many commissions for a demanding clientele, Rodin from very early on relied on talented marble carvers to have his compositions realized in this medium. But he always retained close control on the carving process and employed only assistants who understood and were able to faithfully manifest his style. Victor Peter (French, 1840-1918), who carved this group, was his most able and preferred one.
38. GCENS_150707_317.JPG: Bust of Mary Seacole, 1859 Henry Weekes
39. GCENS_150707_321.JPG: Portrait Bust of Felix Mendelssohn, 1848 Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel
40. GCENS_150707_325.JPG: Dancer, 1912 Paolo Troubetzkoy
41. GCENS_150707_328.JPG: Bust of Marie-Sebastien-Charles-Francois Fontaine de Bire, 1785 Jean-Antoine Houdon
42. GCENS_150707_331.JPG: Busts of Two Sisters: Brigitte Francoise Elisabeth de Lansire and Adelaide Julie Mirleau de Neuville, 1750s Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
43. GCENS_150707_334.JPG: The Fall of the Rebel Angels, about 1715-25
44. GCENS_150707_337.JPG: Bust of Belisarius, 1785-91 Jean-Baptiste Stouf
45. GCENS_150707_343.JPG: Herm of a Vestal Virgin, 1821-22 Antonio Canova
46. GCENS_150707_346.JPG: Offering to Priapus, about 1775 Clodion (Claude Michel)
47. GCENS_150707_350.JPG: Standing Woman I, 1960 Alberto Giacometti
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The Getty Center, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The museum's permanent collection includes "pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs". Among the works on display is the painting Irises by Vincent van Gogh.

The Center, which opened on December 16, 1997, is also well known for its architecture, gardens, and views (overlooking Los Angeles). Besides the Museum, the Center's buildings house the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the administrative offices of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which owns and operates the Center.

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The purchase of the land upon which the Center is located -- a campus of 24 acres (97,000 m2) on a 110-acre (0.45 km2) site in the Santa Monica Mountains above Interstate 405, surrounded by 600 acres (2.4 km2) kept in a natural state -- was announced in 1983. The top of the hill is 900 feet (270 m) above I-405, high enough that on a clear day it is possible to see not only the Los Angeles skyline but also the San Bernardino Mountains to the east as well as the Pacific Ocean to the west.

In 1984, Richard Meier was chosen to be the architect of the Center. After an extensive conditional-use permit process, construction began in August 1989.

The construction was significantly delayed, with the planned completion date moved from 1988 to 1995 (as of 1990). By 1995, however, the campus was described as only "more than halfway complete".

The Center finally opened to the public on December 16, 1997. Although the total project cost was estimated to be $350 million as of 1990, it was later estimated to be $1.3 billion.

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