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December 10, 2007 |
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
This 40-minute site tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, its history, renovation, and new educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Spotlight Talk: Sarcophagus Panel with the Myth of Endymion and Selene
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through December 31, 2007
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This 20-minute gallery talk introduces ways of looking at ancient art through an in-depth exploration of one object in the collection. This month the featured object is the Sarcophagus Panel with the Myth of Endymion and Selene from around A.D. 210. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Auditorium 15 minutes before the talk.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
This 40-minute tour explores the architecture and gardens of the Getty Villa and their historical prototypes. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 30, 2008
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Offered in English and Spanish on weekends. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:45 p.m.
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Focus Tour: True and Lasting Beauty: J. Paul Getty and the Lure of Ancient Art
Monday December 10, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In amassing his collection of ancient art, J. Paul Getty followed in a tradition of collecting dating back to the Romans. Focused around some of the works that Getty personally collected, this tour examines what the acquisition of antiquities has meant to collectors from the first century B.C. to the present day. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Auditorium 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome
Daily through January 14, 2008
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, archaeological excavations at sites such as Pompeii and Herculaneum resulted in the rediscovery of Roman glass. The designs and production techniques of ancient glass vessels were a revelation to modern artisans, who sought to emulate them in their own work. This exhibition includes some of the original Roman objects that inspired modern glassmakers as well as their reproductions of these ancient pieces. Reflecting Antiquity is organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and The Corning Museum of Glass.
 Learn more about this exhibition
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The Magnificent Piranesi
Daily through March 10, 2008
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778) was a student of antiquity, a polemicist and theorist, a cartographer, an architect, a designer of books and decorative arts, a printmaker, and a publisher. While his prolific prints and books provide exhaustive documentation on ancient and modern Rome, they also reveal the original and visionary sides of Piranesi, who readily exaggerated features of Rome's buildings and created views of fantastic architecture, ruins, and antique compositions. Drawing on the Getty Research Institute's strong collection of Piranesi's prints and books, the exhibition presents a synthetic portrait of the extraordinary range of his activities—from the polemics on ancient and modern art to the stylish "advertising" of his wares.
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