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How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers

Ancient Rome: The Definitive Visual History

Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun

The Hittites: Lost Civilizations

The Language of Flowers

Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue

Guidelines for the Technical Examination of Bronze Sculpture

French Silver in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Conserving Canvas

Roy Lichtenstein: Outdoor Painted Sculpture

René Magritte: The Artist's Materials

Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend

Giacomo Ceruti: A Compassionate Eye

George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art History

Hersilia's Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France

Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy

The Way to Be: A Memoir

Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith

Jewels of Ancient Nubia

Greece - A Jewish History

Encounters in Video Art in Latin America

The Absolute Realist: Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923-1967

Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889-1914

Renaissance Secrets: A Lifetime Working with Wall Paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Others at the Vatican

Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art

Eye Dreaming: Photographs by Anthony Barboza

Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities

Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565-1898), paperback

Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565-1898), hardcover

Getty: A 3D Expanding Pocket Guide

Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art, An International Conference Held in Mexico City, June 3–5, 2019

Egypt and the Classical World: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity

Properties of Plastics: A Guide for Conservators

The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844

Los Angeles: The Development, Life, and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California

Franz Kline: The Artist's Materials

Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World - Exhibition Highlights

Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World

Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy

Monet Hates Me

The Life of Lambert Lombard (1565); and Effigies of Several Famous Painters from the Low Countries (1572)

Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan: The Archaeology of Things in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods

The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France

Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting

A Maya Universe in Stone

Rubens: Picturing Antiquity

Watteau at Work: La Surprise

Luisa Roldán

The Traveling Camera: Lewis Hine and the Fight to End Child Labor

How to Tell a Joke

Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America

Managing Energy Use in Modern Buildings: Case Studies in Conservation Practice

Purity Is a Myth: The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay

The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930: Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates

The Renaissance Restored: Paintings Conservation and the Birth of Modern Art History in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Clyfford Still: The Artist's Materials

Mario Giacomelli: Figure/Ground

Poussin and the Dance

Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic Museum

Ebony: Covering Black America

The Big Sticker Book of Blooms

French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World

Lives of Gainsborough

Lives of William Blake

Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi

Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation

Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting

Egyptologists' Notebooks: The Golden Age of Nile Exploration in Words, Pictures, Plans, and Letters

Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A.

Fluxus Means Change: Jean Brown's Avant-Garde Archive

Signs and Symbols: An Illustrated guide to Their Origins and Meanings

The Getty Center - Architecture in Detail

Drawing for the Absolute Beginner

Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt: Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project

The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture: History, Theory, Practice

Robert Irwin Getty Garden, Revised Edition

The Tastemakers: British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior, 1785-1865

A Memoir of Samuel Palmer

Anecdotes of William Hogarth

Lectures on Art

If . . . 25th-Anniversary Edition

Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life

Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Michelangelo: Mind of the Master

Assyrian Palace Sculptures

On Canvas: Preserving the Structure of Paintings

Museum Lighting: A Guide for Conservators and Curators

Sarnath: A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began

Sidney Nolan: The Artist's Materials

Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary: History and Heritage

Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum: Movement, Embodiment, Emotion

Inside the Getty: Second Edition

Gordon Parks: The Flavio Story

Values in Heritage Management: Emerging Approaches and Research Directions

A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations

Tremaine Houses: One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America

More than One Picture: An Art History of the Hyperimage

Lives of Rubens

Lives of Caravaggio

Lives of Leonardo da Vinci

Rembrandt Drawings

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Fascicule 10: Athenian Red-Figure Column- and Volute-Kraters

London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780-1820

Canons and Values: Ancient to Modern

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts

Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation

Modern Metals in Cultural Heritage: Understanding and Characterization

On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne

Out of Bounds: The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker

Antiquities in Motion: From Excavation Sites to Renaissance Collections

Looking at Jewelry: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques

Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum

Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years

Don't Let the Beasties Escape This Book!

Oscar G. Rejlander: Artist Photographer

Memories of Degas

Lives of Titian

Lives of Tintoretto

Sam Francis: The Artist's Materials