The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum’s permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes an editorial statement by the Journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, Curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, Curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, Curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems will be discussed along with the articles written by Laurie Fusco, Elisabeth Mention, Burton B. Fredericksen, John Fletcher, Thomas Kren, Gillian Wilson, Adrian Sassoon, Jiří Frel, Sheldon Nodelman, Jean-Paul Boucher, Mario A. Del Chiaro, Stéphanie Boucher, Jean-Louis Zimmermann, Patricia Tuttle, Antje Krug, Arthur Houghton, Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, René Hodot, Susan Treggiari, Emilio Rodríguez-Almeida, and Andrea Rothe.

• PAINTINGS
• An Unpublished Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi
  Laurie Fusco
• Conservation Report on the Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi
  Elisabeth Mention
• E COSI DESIO ME MENA
  Burton B. Fredericksen
• Panel Examination and Dendrochronology
  John Fletcher
• Jan Lingelbach in Rome
  Thomas Kren
• DECORATIVE ARTS
• Acquisitions by the Department of Decorative Arts, 1981-1982
  Gillian Wilson
• Two Acquisitions of Sèvres Porcelain in The Getty Museum
  Adrian Sassoon
• ANTIQUITIES
• Notes on Some Archaic Attic Sculpture
  Jiří Frel
• A Portrait of The Empress Plautilla
  Sheldon Nodelman
• L’épitaphe d’Hélène
  Jean-Paul Boucher
• An Etruscan Stone Winged Lion
  Mario A. Del Chiaro
• Deux petits bronzes à Malibu
  Stéphanie Boucher
• L’Armure en bronze de Malibu
  Jean-Louis Zimmermann
• Conservation of the Bronze Cuirass and Helmet
  Patricia Tuttle
• Die ‘Kauernde Aphrodite’ in Kristall
  Antje Krug
• A Tetradrachm of Seleucia Pieria at the Getty Museum
  Arthur Houghton
• Some Objects Relating to the Theatre
  Marit Jentoft-Nilsen
• Décret de Kymè en l’honneur du Prytane Kléanax
  René Hodot
• Two Latin Inscriptions
  Susan Treggiari
• “Epigraphica Minora” del Paul Getty Museum
  Emilio Rodríguez-Almeida
• Conservation Report on the Mummy Portrait of Isidora
  Andrea Rothe