J. Paul Getty bought his first classical antiquity-a small terracotta sculpture-at auction in London in 1939. Over the next four decades, he became a passionate collector, and in the 1950s he created a trust for "the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge." Building on that early foundation, successive antiquities curators at the Getty Museum have amassed a collection that now contains more than fifty thousand ancient objects. In lively prose accompanied by a full-color photograph of each object, this handbook of the antiquities collection presents nearly two hundred of the Getty Museum's most important pieces. Spanning thousands of years as far back as the third millennium B.C. through the third century A.D.--the Getty antiquities collection encompasses Cycladic, Greek, Etruscan, South Italian, Roman, and Romano-Egyptian cultures. It includes one of the finest assemblages of ancient Greek vases in the United States; monumental marble sculptures and diminutive bronzes; Greek and Roman gems; and Hellenistic silverware, jewelry, and glass.
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Deborah Gribbon is museum director. Marion True is antiquities curator.
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First of all the physical description of the book. It's slightly too large for a pocket type guide. The pages are glossy with excellent photos. Considering the collection that this work covers however it is way too thin. The selected approximately 200 "important" pieces. I'm not sure how they determined the importance of these pieces as there was no discernable pattern. It was broken up into the age the pieces were from (with a fair smattering from each period) but that appears to be the only categorization. For each piece there is a brief description ranging from a line next to the picture to a page long. Sadly this gives no indication of Mr. Getty's personal tastes and which items he preferred. Otherwise a great book.
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