Beyond the Nile. Egypt and the Classical World J. Spier, T. Potts, and S. Cole (Eds). Los Angeles, Getty Museums. ISBN 978-1606065518. Pp. 360. Ill. 200.... by Steven Hunt

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Terracotta Group of Orpheus and the Sirens is Finally Going Home

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Review of: 'Pillsbury, Joanne , Timothy Potts & Kim N. Richter (eds). Golden kingdoms: luxury arts in the ancient Americas. 311 pp., maps, plates, bibliogr. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, 2017. £50.00 (cloth)' by Geurds, A

Haptic Blackness: The Double Life of an 18th-century Bust by Cyra Levenson, Chi-ming Yang, Ken Gonzales-Day

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The conservation of ancient marble / by 329924 Rinne, David

Correction to: Visualizing and measuring gold leaf in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian gold ground paintings using scanning macro X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy: a new to... by Douglas MacLennan, Laura Llewellyn, John K. Delaney, Kathryn A. Dooley, Catherine Schmidt Patterson, Yvonne Szafran, Karen Trentelman

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0294 A Goddess of the Night, a Roman Gem, and the Bachstitz Gallery by Claire L. Lyons

“…Two Roman objects in the J. Paul Getty Museum, a bronze statuette of the moon goddess Luna and a cornelian gem, were among the handful of classical antiquities acquired for Adolf Hitler’s unrealized "Führermuseum" in Linz. …”
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Portrait of an Etruscan Athletic Official: A Multi-Analytical Study of a Painted Terracotta Wall Panel by Monica Ganio, Douglas MacLennan, Marie Svoboda, Claire Lyons, Karen Trentelman

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Odilon Redon’s noir drawings: characterization of materials and methods using noninvasive imaging and spectroscopies by Nathan S. Daly, Michelle Sullivan, Lynn Lee, John K. Delaney, Karen Trentelman

“…This study examines two drawings by Redon in the J. Paul Getty Museum collection—Apparition (ca. 1880–1890) and Head within an Aureole (ca. 1894–1895)—executed during the period in his career in which he was transitioning between these two modes. …”
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The Getty Kouros and other anomalies by Siri Sande

“… The kouros purchased by the Getty Museum in 1985 is considered to be a forgery by many scholars, since it shows several stylistic discrepancies. …”
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Visualizing and measuring gold leaf in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian gold ground paintings using scanning macro X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy: a new tool for advancin... by Douglas MacLennan, Laura Llewellyn, John K. Delaney, Kathryn A. Dooley, Catherine Schmidt Patterson, Yvonne Szafran, Karen Trentelman

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Bestiary Imagery in Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth Century by Adam S. Cohen

“…This article explores the use of imagery related to the bestiary tradition in three Hebrew books made around the year 1300, focusing especially on the richly decorated Rothschild Pentateuch (Los Angeles, Getty Museum MS 116). These Hebrew books signal how bestiary knowledge and its visual expression could be adapted to enrich the experience of medieval Jewish reader-viewers, adding to our understanding of Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe.…”
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Resonance and Reuse: The Fifteenth-Century Transformation of a Late Romanesque Vita Christi by Kristen Collins

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More than Vestiges: Photographic Archives of Ancient Mexico by John Mraz

“…Others are located elsewhere: the Smithsonian Institute, the Getty Museum, the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, American Museum of Natural History, and the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo. …”
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Negotiating Identity through the Architecture and Interior Decoration of Elite Households in Ptolemaic Egypt by Sara E. Cole

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Ptolemaic Cavalrymen on Painted Alexandrian Funerary Monuments by Sara E. Cole

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The Watermark Imaging System: Revealing the Internal Structure of Historical Papers by Elisa Ou, Paul Messier, Ruixue Lian, Andrew Messier, William Sethares

“…The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated in several experiments on images taken with the WImSy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the results are compared with manually optimized images.…”
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The Girl with the Golden Wreath: Four Perspectives on a Mummy Portrait by Judith Barr, Clara M. ten Berge, Jan M. van Daal, Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter

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Possible Radiation-Induced Damage to the Molecular Structure of Wooden Artifacts Due to Micro-Computed Tomography, Handheld X-Ray Fluorescence, and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopi... by Madalena Kozachuk, Alexandra Suda, Lisa Ellis, Mary Walzak, Mark Biesinger, Sheila Macfie, Robert Hudson, Andrew Nelson, Ronald Martin, Arlen Heginbotham

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Characterization of an unusual coating on funerary portraits from Roman Egypt circa 100-300AD by Daniel P. Kirby, Marie Svoboda, Joy Mazurek, Lin Rosa Spaabæk, John Southon

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