On the Hilltop
Nicholas Penny: How the Getty spends its money, 4 January 2007
Guide to the Getty Villa
by Kenneth Lapatin et al.
Getty, 131 pp., £8.50, June 2006,0 89236 828 4 Show More
by Kenneth Lapatin et al.
Getty, 131 pp., £8.50, June 2006,
History of the Art of Antiquity
by Johann JoachimWinckelmann, translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave.
Getty, 431 pp., £45, March 2006,0 89236 668 0 Show More
by Johann JoachimWinckelmann, translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave.
Getty, 431 pp., £45, March 2006,
The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing
by T.J. Clark.
Yale, 260 pp., £20, August 2006,0 300 11726 4 Show More
by T.J. Clark.
Yale, 260 pp., £20, August 2006,
“... the equivalent of – and a complement to – those great histories of ancient art that began with Winckelmann’s Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums of 1764. The villa is different. Cycladic statuettes and Roman Egypt are separated, but for the most part the galleries are arranged thematically ‘in order to highlight the original contexts and meanings of ... ”