Paintings

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  1. Más allá de la luz

    A pen and watercolor drawing of a winter scene of a village with trees and homes covered in snow, and people surrounding an icy canal.

    El blanco en el arte nunca es simplemente un lienzo vacío

    Mar 19, 2026

  2. Is Your Favorite Painting Colored with Crushed Bugs?

    A large portrait of a man in a vivid red robe with a red frame hangs in a gallery setting, while a woman in the lower left of the frame points up at the man.

    Discover red’s rich—and sometimes secretive and violent—history

    Mar 10, 2026

  3. New Volume Explores Baroque Painter Michaelina Wautier’s Diverse, Complex Oeuvre

    Cover of book “Michaelina Wautier” featuring a classical portrait of a boy with long, wavy brown hair and a white scarf.

    This book offers a long‑overdue recognition of the painter’s remarkable artistic and intellectual achievements

    Mar 9, 2026

  4. New Book Reevaluates the Sensuous Still Lifes of Anne Vallayer-Coster

    Cover of book “Anne Vallayer-Coster” featuring a still-life painting featuring seashells, coral, and marine plants arranged against a dark background.

    The French Painter is given her due in the first English language-monograph in 20 years

    Mar 6, 2026

  5. Recreating the Beginning

    painting featuring a woman in profile from mid-chest up, surrounded by gold round emblems featuring different symbols

    Artist Harmonia Rosales infuses her medieval-inspired paintings with West African Yoruba mythology to tell a different creation story

    Feb 17, 2026

  6. Explore the Faces of Ancient Roman Egypt in Getty’s New Volume on Mummy Portraits

    Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt, Volume 2: Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project book cover

    This open-access publication brings together global expertise and groundbreaking research to scholars and the public worldwide

    Feb 9, 2026

  7. Seeing the Light

    A pen and watercolor drawing of a winter scene of a village with trees and homes covered in snow, and people surrounding an icy canal.

    White in art is never just a blank slate

    Jan 27, 2026

  8. An Artist, Histories, and Community: Coming Together Around Kerry James Marshall

    Photos of a symposium with speakers and a live audience.

    Marshall’s work reveals the resilience and complexity of the Black diaspora

    Jan 15, 2026

  9. Husband-and-Wife Companion Portraits Join the Getty Collection

    painted portrait of a bearded man sitting on an armchair and next to it, a painted portrait of a woman with upswept hair sitting on an armchair

    Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin was renowned for his striking likenesses

    Oct 31, 2025

  10. Getty Strengthens its Collection with New Acquisitions

    Silhouette of a child jumping off a structure with a light background.

    Recent additions bolster Getty’s holdings of antiquities, drawings, sculptures, and photographs

    Oct 27, 2025