Early Modern Art
Stories and news about early modern art, 1500–1800 CE
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The Real Woman Behind the Manet Painting
Curators delve into the identity of the model who posed for Spring
New Getty Volume on Northern Italian Painter Giacomo Ceruti
This book explores the relationship between art, patronage, and economic inequality
Innovative New Volume Is a Landmark Study in Rubens’s Influence on Colonial Latin American Art
Analysis of printed works in their colonial context allows for a renewed look at the significance of the “copy” as legitimate artistic practice
Getty Museum Acquires Pastel by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
The work speaks to emerging views of motherhood and familial bonds
Getty Museum Acquires Recently Rediscovered Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi
Lucretia was rediscovered after having been in private collections for centuries
Lund Humphries and Getty Publications to Collaborate on New Book Series Highlighting Women Artists
Series will recognize their accomplishments, to revive their name recognition and make their works better known to art enthusiasts of the 21st century
New Catalogue on French Rococo Furniture Available Online and in Print
Available via Getty’s open-access platform, Quire, catalogue blends curation, conservation, and the history of French Rococo ébénisterie
J. Paul Getty Museum Announces Major Acquisition of a Group of 39 Dutch Drawings
The acquisition will transform the Getty Museum’s Dutch drawings collection
The Getty Museum Presents Artists on the Move: Journeys and Drawings
Exhibition examines the travels of European artists from the 16th to the 19th centuries
Getty Museum Granted Export License to Acquire 18th-Century Painting by Joseph Wright of Derby
Britain grants export license so Two Boys with a Bladder by Joseph Wright of Derby can come to the Getty