Getty Research Institute Study Photographs of Museum Displays of Ancient Art, 1900s

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Summary

Title:
Study photographs of museum displays of ancient art
Dates:
1900s
Creators:
Hutzel, Max, Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973, Getty Research Institute, Sigismondi, Roberto, Koch, Guntram, and Neuerburg, Norman
Abstract:
A collection of photographs of Greek and Roman art in museum galleries and displays assembled by the Getty Research Institute. A number of museums are especially well documented, including: the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA; the Museo archeologico nazionale in Naples; the Acropolis, Agora, and National Archaeological museums in Athens; the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence; and several major museums in Rome as well as the Vatican Museums.
Extent:
5 Linear Feet (24 boxes)
Language:
English .

Background

Scope and content:

An assembled collection of photographs of Greek and Roman art in museum galleries and displays. A number of museums are especially well documented, including: the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA; the Museo archeologico nazionale in Naples; the Acropolis, Agora, and National Archaeological museums in Athens; the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence; and several major museums in Rome as well as the Vatican Museums. Other museums represented in the collection are those in the the cities of Aquileia, Baltimore, Bologna, Cambridge (MA), Brescia, Cagliari, Capua, Castiglioncello, Delphi, Fiesole, CivitĂ  Lavinia, Mantua, Milan, Montepulciano, New York, Nola, Olympia, Ostia, Oxford, Palermo, Paris, Pisa, Pompeii, Ravenna, Sorrento, Syracuse (Italy), Taranto, Tarquinia, Thebes, Turin, Trieste, Venice, Verona, and Volterra.

The principal sources for the modern prints in this collection are commercial photographers and vendors, such as Alinari (including the Anderson and Brogi archives), Photographie Giraudon, Max Hutzel, Guntram Koch, and Roberto Sigismondi. A group of copy prints reproduces early 20th century stereographic views in the collection of the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. Some images moved from other collections in the repository (such as the Giovanni Becatti archive).

Approximately 400 commercial prints from Fratelli Alinari reproduce plaster casts of Roman art and models of Roman architecture created for the Mostra augustea della romanitĂ , Rome, 1937-38, commemorating the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the Roman emperor Augustus. The exhibition catalog, Mostra augustea della romanitĂ : catalogo (Roma, 1938), provides a descriptive inventory to the photographs, which are arranged according to the room (sala) number of the original exhibition. A group of color photos assembled by Norman Neuerburg comprises 45 prints documenting architectural details of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, and 52 that show the ancient inspirations for those details on Roman structures in southern Italy. The photographs compliment a collection of Neuerburg documents relating to the construction of the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1970-1987, held by the repository's Special Collections (accn. no. 870517).

Biographical / historical:

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.

Processing information:

Finding aid created in 2009.

Arrangement:

Arranged alphabetically by name of city and museum.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Ann Harrison
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-09-26 17:04:58 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers. For further information, consult the Guide to the Photo Archive and Database.

Terms of access:

Photographs and permission to publish must be obtained from copyright holder(s). For further information, contact Library Reproductions and Permissions.

Location of this collection:
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688, US
Contact:
(310) 440-7390
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