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The Getty Research Journal  features the work of art historians, museum curators, and conservators around the world as part of Getty’s mission to promote the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy. Articles present original scholarship related to Getty collections, initiatives, and broad research interests.

This issue features essays on a Parthian stag rhyton and new epigraphic and technical discoveries; gendered devotion and owner portraits in illuminated manuscripts from northern France around 1300; a technical analysis of heraldic devices in a missal from Renaissance Bologna; a new social and collective practice of drawing among French architect pensionnaires  of the 1820s and 1830s at Pompeii; artist Malvina Hoffman’s representations of race during her travels to Southeastern Europe as part of her work with the American Yugo-Slav Relief; Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta’s painting Reverie—The Letter  and the small-world sensation as a methodology for global art history; arguments that disprove the attribution of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s sculpture Head with Horns  to artist Paul Gauguin; Head with Horns  and Gauguin’s creative appropriation of objects; and the unpublished first draft of critic Clement Greenberg’s essay “Towards a Newer Laocoon.” 

222 pages 
7 x 10 inches
107 color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-716-1
ISSN 1944-8740
paperback

Getty Publications
Imprint: Getty Research Institute

2021

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