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The Art of Learning to Draw

Journey back to the Renaissance for a glimpse into how aspiring artists learned this foundational skill

Black chalk drawing of a group of men, dressed in 18th-century clothing, in a drawing class with a standing nude male as their subject in the front left corner of the scene.
Life-Drawing Class, ca. 1716–1718, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Black and white chalk on blue paper, unframed: 41 × 54 cm (16 1/8 × 21 1/4 in.) Katrin Bellinger Collection. L.2025.7

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  1. La Villa inspira

    Photograph of a bearded person wearing a fedora laughing while playing drums on dimly lit stage.

    Poncho Sánchez, ícono del jazz latino, quedó cautivado por las refinadas vasijas de cerámica, la arquitectura y el ambiente sosegado del peristilo exterior de la Villa

  2. Fotógrafos latinoamericanos

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    De las calles de Ciudad de México a las pampas argentinas, estas fotografías detienen en el tiempo lugares, vidas, generaciones y oficios que no se pueden replicar

  3. Ahora puede probar el chocolate viral Dubái en el Museo de la Getty Villa

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    El dulce mundialmente famoso tiene raíces mediterráneas centenarias

Art & Architecture

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  1. When Seashells, Ferns, and Seaweed Went Viral

    Two cyanotype photographic prints featuring ferns and algae.

    Why Victorian women like photographer Anna Atkins obsessed over natural collectibles

  2. He's the Ebenezer Scrooge of the Middle Ages

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    A medieval Halloween carol

  3. Bold Lines and Nude Sunbaths

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    When European modernism met a California health nut

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  1. Recipe for Success

    Three people pull a plastic sheet away from an unstretched canvas painting laid on a table.

    Scientists and conservators are using a Getty grant to reinvent a crucial art conservation material

  2. Celebrating the Breadth of Black Art in Brazil

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    How one art historian is expanding the narrative of art history

  3. What Goes on Inside Getty’s Vaults?

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    How a graduate intern helps save art, archives, and energy

Becoming Artsy

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  1. How to Make a Medieval Pocket

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    Becoming Artsy, Season Five, Episode One

  2. In Search of the Stars (and Our Place in the Cosmos)

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    Becoming Artsy, Episode 405

  3. The Use of Life

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    Becoming Artsy, Episode 404

In the Headlines

  1. In Los Angeles, when art and science reshape the world of tomorrow.

    In California, the powerful Getty Foundation brings together artists and scientists to address major contemporary challenges

  2. Inside the dash to save the Getty Villa from the Palisades fire: A timeline

    The Palisades fire ultimately spared the Villa and its more than 44,000 objects, including many Roman, Greek and Etruscan relics

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