THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM HANDBOOK OF THE ANTIQUITIES COLLECTION (GETTY TRUST PUBLICATIONS: J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM) by J. Paul Getty museum - 2002

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Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002. xxiii, 237 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "J. Paul Getty bought his first classical antiquity -- a small terracotta sculpture -- at auction in London in 1939. Over the next four decades, he became a passionate collector, and in the 1950s he created a trust for 'the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge.' Building on that early foundation, successive antiquities curators at the Getty Museum have amassed a collection that now contains more than fifty thousand ancient objects. In lively prose accompanied by a full-color photograph of each object, this handbook of the antiquities collection presents nearly two hundred of the Getty Museum's most important pieces. Spanning thousands of years as far back as the third millennium B.C. through the third century A.D.--the Getty antiquities collection encompasses Cycladic, Greek, Etruscan, South Italian, Roman, and… Read More