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When: From Saturday, October 27, 2018 to Sunday, January 27, 2019 - Time: From 9:00 am To 5:00 pm - Where: The J. Paul Getty Museum Inspired by a renewed interest in classical sculpture and closer study of nature, Renaissance artists made the nude body ever more vibrant, lifelike, and central to their practice. Yet, pious European Renaissance socie...

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Il Satiro ebbro custodito al Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), proveniente della Villa dei Papiri di Pompei, in esposizione dal 2019 alla Villa Getty di Malibu, ricostruzione della rovina pompeiana voluta dal filantropo Jean Paul Getty. Poi l'accordo tra il porto di Los Angeles e quelli della Campania per scambiarsi buone pratiche. Inf...

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Prosecutors have announced that an order issued last week to seize an ancient Greek statue for years disputed by Italy and the Getty Museum in Malibu is "immediately executive". "The Lysippus statue must return to Italy," prosecutors told ANSA on Thursday, accompanied by Tristano Tonnini, the lawyer for the association "Cento Città", which has been...

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Il celebre Museo Getty di Los Angeles ospita, dal 27 marzo al 9 settembre, un’ importante mostra dedicata all’ Antico Egitto ed alle reciproche influenze che, per vari secoli, si verificarono fra Egitto, Grecia e Roma. La mostra, il cui titolo e’ “ Beyond the Nile Egypt and the Classical World ", presenta importanti reperti provenienti in gran part...

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Thursday announced the gift of six rare Italian manuscript illustrations that will go on display in December. The gift, from collectors James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell, were originally pages from a choir book made around 1400 for the Carthusian monastery of Santo Spirito in Farneta, Italy. The book was commissioned by Nic...

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The conference comemorates the six-houndredth anniversary of the birth of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini, who occupied a central position in the history of the Italian Renaissance. Organaized by Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA) and Bryan Keene (The J. Paul Getty Museum), in collaboration with the IIC Los Angeles. Advanced regist...

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An iconic visual rendering of perhaps the world’s most famous underdog story comes to Los Angeles this week. David with the Head of Goliath, by famed Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio (1571-1610), will be on view at the Getty Centeralongside two of the artist’s other masterpieces. In the work, a young man with his chest half-draped in a billowing...

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The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute cordially invites you to: "THE GALLERIA BORGHESE MUSEUM - special presentation by Director Anna Coliva". Tuesday, November 21, 2017. 6:30 PM. Italian Cultural Institute - 1023 Hilgard Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90024 The Director of the world renowned Galleria Borghese Museum in Rome, Anna Coliva will pr...

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When: Upcoming, November 21, 2017 - February 18, 2018 - Where: East Pavilion, Upper Level - Free | No ticket required Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610), is unquestionably one of the greatest painters of all time. His bold, naturalistic style, which emphasized the common humanity of the protagonists in his works, w...

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In his depiction of Jesus newly risen from the tomb and lifting his right hand in gentle blessing, painted around 1500, Giovanni Bellini represents Christianity’s savior as the morning dawn. At the far right, the bell tower of a distant town pierces the incandescent horizon, poised to toll and announce the arrival of a new day. In this extraordinar...

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