The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for the New Century
About this ebook
Museum will open its new home in the spectacular Getty Center, designed by the
renowned architect Richard Meier and dramatically sited in the Santa Monica
Mountains above Los Angeles. This will constitute the third home of the Getty Museum
collections, which were first displayed in J. Paul Getty’s ranch house in
Malibu and later were housed in the splendid reconstruction of an ancient Roman
villa that Getty had built on the grounds of his Malibu estate.
A
lively text by the director and associate director of the Museum along with
archival and recently commissioned photographs provide a biography of the
Museum’s benefactor. In addition, the book presents a history of the buildings
that have housed his collections and of the collections themselves—first formed
by Getty during his life and greatly expanded in the years following his
generous and much-heralded bequest.
Fascinating
and rarely seen photographs reveal the life that Getty led as he traveled the
world building his oil empire and, during the later part of his life, in his
great Tudor mansion in England. Documents and photographs from the archives of
the Museum take readers through the painstaking construction first of the Villa
in Malibu and then of the new Getty Center in Los Angeles. Finally,
reproductions of more than 100 masterpieces show the range and depth of the
Getty Museum collections.
