Antiquities

Judith has been at the J. Paul Getty Museum since 2015 as part of the Antiquities Provenance Project. Her research focuses on the history of the Getty’s collection and on documenting the 20th-century art market for antiquities. She holds a BA in classical and near eastern archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and an MSt in classical archaeology from the University of Oxford. In 2019, she co-developed “Provenance Research: Collecting Histories” as a course for the Museum Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is a co-author of the book Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: Methods and Resources (forthcoming, Getty Publications).

Since joining the Getty in 2015, Nicole has worked on the Antiquities Provenance Project, researching the history of the permanent collection for the online collection pages. She received her BA from UC Berkeley in classical civilizations and integrative biology, and holds an MA in art history from UC Davis. Her research interests include Roman domestic art, history of collecting, and the reception of antiquity. While at the Getty, she has written provenance case studies for the Getty blog, contributed to the catalogue Roman Mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum (2016), and published a chapter in Collecting and Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (2019). She is a co-author of the forthcoming book Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: Methods and Resources.

Sara holds a PhD in ancient history from Yale University. Her research focuses on Greco-Roman Egypt, with an emphasis on hybridizing art. More broadly, she is interested in cross-cultural encounters in antiquity and their artistic manifestations. Before joining the Getty, she worked as a Graduate Curatorial Intern in the Ancient Art Department of the Yale University Art Gallery, where she curated an exhibition of the YUAG’s ancient glass collection. She is the Managing Curator for the Getty’s ongoing initiative The Classical World in Context, a series of exhibitions, publications, and programs that explore the diversity and interconnectedness of the ancient Mediterranean and beyond. At the Getty she has been curator or co-curator of exhibitions featuring Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Neo-Assyrian, Persian, Nubian, and Thracian antiquities.

A native of Germany, Jens received a PhD in classical archaeology from Free University Berlin. Working at the Getty Museum since 2002, he curated several exhibitions exploring Hellenistic bronze sculpture, Roman imperial portraits and their modern copies, as well as the role of ancient art in 20th-century European modernism. He is the co-author and editor of several books, most recently the exhibition catalogue Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World (2015, together with Kenneth Lapatin). His current projects include the preparation of the Getty Museum’s collection catalogue of Roman sculpture and the reinstallation of the Getty Villa’s permanent galleries.

Kenneth holds degrees in classics and archaeology from Berkeley and Oxford and was a professor at Boston University before joining the Getty Museum in 2002. He has excavated in Greece, Italy, Israel, and England, both above ground and under water, and has curated over a dozen exhibitions on themes ranging from Athenian vases, polychrome sculpture, and Hellenistic bronzes to antiquity in the Middle Ages and the modern reception of Pompeii. The author/editor of many books and over 100 other publications, his principal research interests include the materials, techniques, and functions of ancient art; the history of collections; luxury in ancient art; and forgery.

Claire Lyons (PhD in Classical Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College; RAAR ‘22) curated the exhibitions The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Mycenaean Greece (2025–26); Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome (2013); Lion Attacking a Horse from the Capitoline Museums, Rome (2012–13); The Aztec Pantheon and Art of Empire (2010); and Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit: The Society of Dilettanti (2008). Among her publications are Etruscan and Italic Art in the J. Paul Getty Museum (forthcoming), Antiquity & Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites (2005), and The Archaeology of Colonialism (2002). Claire has excavated at Poggio Civitate, Corinth, and Metaponto, and published her fieldwork on the Archaic necropolis at Morgantina.

David obtained his doctorate in Classical Archaeology from Oxford University in 2006, and his research interests include Greek and South Italian vase-painting, ancient bronzes and the history of collecting and restoring antiquities. Since joining the museum in 2008, he has curated nine exhibitions, most recently Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery. With Megan O’Neil, he is co-editor of the volume that accompanied that exhibition, and his other edited or co-edited volumes include Dangerous Perfection: Ancient Funerary Vases from Southern Italy (2016); Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase-Painting (2021); and Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: Methods and Resources (forthcoming).