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Getty Research Institute Study Photographs of Medieval Sculpture
76.P.20
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Study photographs of medieval sculpture
Creator:
Getty Research Institute
Creator:
Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968
Creator:
Koch, Guntram
Creator:
Hutzel, Max
Creator:
French & Company (New York, N.Y.)
Identifier/Call Number: 76.P.20
Physical Description:
8.4 Linear Feet
(40 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1900s
Abstract: A collection of modern photographs of medieval sculpture assembled by the Getty Research Institute, including such object
types as sarcophagi, statues, crucifixes and carved fragments. Geographic emphasis is on objects from Italy (30%) and Spain
(20%); other period and geographic divisions include: early Christian; Byzantine and Coptic; Austria and Benelux; England;
France; Germany; and Turkey.
Language of Material:
English
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Arranged by geographic/historical group or country of origin, and century.
Finding aid created in 2009.
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Scope and Content of Collection
A collection of modern photographs of medieval sculpture asssembled by the Getty Research Institute, including such object
types as sarcophagi, statues, crucifixes and carved fragments. Geographic emphasis is on objects from Italy (30%) and Spain
(20%); other period and geographic divisions include: early Christian; Byzantine and Coptic; Austria and Benelux; England;
France; Germany; and Turkey.
Sources of photographs are scholars' archives such as those of Erwin Panofsky (Germany) and Guntram Koch (early Christian,
Byzantine, Turkey); art dealers such as French & Company (Austria and Benelux); and commercial photographers or photographic
archives such as Alinari, the Conway Library (Italy), Hirmer Verlag, Max Hutzel (France, Spain, and minor centers in Italy),
and Zodiaque (Romanesque France and Italy).
In 1974, the J. Paul Getty Museum began assembling a "photo library" by consolidating the visual resources of each existing
curatorial department. By the early 1980s, the Photo Archive was actively acquiring large collections of photographs from
commercial and private sources and scholars' archives that contained a photographic component. In 1983, the nearly one million
photographs of the Photo Archive were incorporated into the Research Institute's Special Collections.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Crosses
Sculpture, Medieval
Sculpture, Spanish
Sarcophagi, Medieval
Statues
Sculpture, Italian
Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968 -- Photograph collections