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In Focus
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edizioni J Paul Getty Museum Pubns collana J Paul Getty Museum Pubns (Paperback) , 2002
William Henry Fox Talbot--a scientist, mathematician, author and artist--is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. In mid-1834 he began to experiment with light-sensitive chemistry, and in January 1839 he announced his invention of the photogenic drawing, two weeks after Louis-Jacques Mand�...
A Garden of Greek Verse
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edizioni J Paul Getty Museum Pubns collana J Paul Getty Museum Pubns (Hardcover) , 2000
Odes, hymns, and lyrics from many of Greece's most noted classical poets--including Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Sophocles, and Euripides--are beautifully illustrated here with details of ancient Greek frescoes, vase paintings, and sculptures. Over the centuries, celebrated writers such as George Chapman, Mary Barnard, John...
1 To 10 and Back Again
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edizioni J Paul Getty Museum Pubns collana J Paul Getty Museum Pubns (Hardcover) , 1999
Ten objects from the French decorative arts collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum--fine clocks, gilded chairs, and elaborate globes among them--are cleverly arranged for little fingers to find and play with in this children's counting book. Once young readers solidify their counting skills in the first half of the...
A Garden of Roman Verse
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edizioni J Paul Getty Museum Pubns collana J Paul Getty Museum Pubns (Hardcover) , 1998
The glorious poetry of Rome has endured for more than two thousand years. For most of that time, it was read only in the original Latin, but over the centuries celebrated writers, from John Dryden to Aubrey Beardsley to Ezra Pound, have been inspired to create translations that reflect their own ages, while retaining...
In Focus
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edizioni J Paul Getty Museum Pubns collana J Paul Getty Museum Pubns (Paperback) , 1995
This latest volume in the acclaimed In Focus series examines the life and work of Alfred Stieglitz, concentrating on the Getty Museum's considerable holdings of the work of this American master. In his studies of his wife, Georgia O'Keefe, in his portraits of the urban scene, and in his pictures of natural form, Stieglitz...