PRELIMINARY INVENTORY OF THE STUDY PHOTOGRAPHS OF MEDIEVAL SCULPTURE 76.P.20
Martha Steele
Special Collections
2009
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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
.
Arrangement
Arranged by geographic/historical group or country of origin, and century.
Processing History
Finding aid created in 2009.
Other Finding Aids
The
Photo Archive Database includes photograph level access to approximately one-third of the photographs in this collection.
Publication Rights
Access
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).
Biographical/Historical Note
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
Study photographs of medieval sculpture
box 2, box 3, box 30, box 31, box 32, box 33, box 35
Early Christian, Early Medieval, Byzantine
box 5, box 6, box 7, box 40*
box 36, box 37, box 38, box 39
box 10, box 11, box 12, box 13, box 14, box 15, box 16, box 17
box 25, box 26, box 27, box 28, box 29, box 30, box 31
box 18, box 19, box 20, box 21
