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Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum (1980)

by Burton B. Fredericksen, J. Paul Getty Museum

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This handsome book reproduces and describes fifty of the most prized paintings in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Included are the most recent acquisitions--Van Gogh's Irises, Titian's Venus and Adonis, Canaletto's View of the Grand Canal, and Pontormo's Portrait of Cosimo de'Medici--as well as such great works as Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi, Carpaccio's Hunting on the Lagoon, van Dyck's Portrait of Agostino Pallavicini, ter Brugghen's Woman with an Ape, Rembrandt's Saint Bartholomew, Poussin's Holy Family, David's Portrait of the Sisters Zénaide and Charlotte Bonaparte, Renoir's La Promenade, Ensor's Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1888, and Alma Tadema's Spring.… (more)
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J. Paul Getty Museummain authorall editionsconfirmed
Hull, Donald A.Photographersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
John Coy DesignDesignersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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During his lifetime, J. Paul Getty purchased paintings belonging to every major European school of art dating from the thirteenth to the twentieth century.
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This handsome book reproduces and describes fifty of the most prized paintings in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Included are the most recent acquisitions--Van Gogh's Irises, Titian's Venus and Adonis, Canaletto's View of the Grand Canal, and Pontormo's Portrait of Cosimo de'Medici--as well as such great works as Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi, Carpaccio's Hunting on the Lagoon, van Dyck's Portrait of Agostino Pallavicini, ter Brugghen's Woman with an Ape, Rembrandt's Saint Bartholomew, Poussin's Holy Family, David's Portrait of the Sisters Zénaide and Charlotte Bonaparte, Renoir's La Promenade, Ensor's Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1888, and Alma Tadema's Spring.

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