J. Paul Getty Museum Books

Featuring both new acquisitions and beloved masterpieces, this updated handbook serves as a comprehensive guide to the J. Paul Getty Museum's collections. It invites newcomers to explore the museum while providing returning visitors with a means to enhance their memories of the artworks. The book is designed to enrich the experience of both first-time and seasoned visitors, making it an essential companion for anyone interested in the museum's treasures.

J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths' work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions--among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld--it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.

Organisé autour des écoles nationales, ce volume présente les oeuvres les plus importantes de la collection du musée et illustre le développement du dessin européen à partir de la Renaissance.

These lavish volumes feature highlights of five of the collections in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Each volume contains between seventy-five and one hundred objects, handsomely reproduced in full color and described by members of the curatorial staff.