PRELIMINARY INVENTORY OF THE STUDY PHOTOGRAPHS OF MUSEUM DISPLAYS OF ANCIENT ART 76.P.2

Ann Harrison
Special Collections
©2009
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
Business Number: (310) 440-7390
Fax Number: (310) 440-7780
reference@getty.edu


Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Study photographs of museum displays of ancient art
Creator: Hutzel, Max
Creator: Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973
Creator: Getty Research Institute
Creator: Sigismondi, Roberto
Creator: Koch, Guntram
Creator: Neuerburg, Norman
Identifier/Call Number: 76.P.2
Physical Description: 5 Linear Feet (24 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1900s
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.
Language of Material: English .

Publication Rights

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

Access

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

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by name of city and museum.

Scope and Content of Collection

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, Cività 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 romanità, Rome, 1937-38, commemorating the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the Roman emperor Augustus. The exhibition catalog, Mostra augustea della romanità: 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).

Other Finding Aids

The Photo Archive Database  includes photograph level access to approximately 13% of the photographs in this collection.

Processing History

Finding aid created in 2009.

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

Agora (Athens, Greece)
Art, Greek
Archaeological museums and collections -- Italy -- Rome
Archaeological museums and collections -- Vatican City
Archaeological museums and collections
Photographic prints
Art, Roman
Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973 -- Photograph collections
J. Paul Getty Museum
Mostra augustea della romanità (1937-1938: Rome, Italy)
Mouseio Akropolēs
Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece)
Museo nazionale di Napoli
Galleria degli Uffizi

 

Study photographs of museum displays of ancient art

box 1

Athens

box 2, box 3

Florence

box 4

Malibu

box 5, box 6

Naples

 

Rome

box 7

Antiquarium, Barracco, Borghese, Museo kircheriano, Museo etrusco

box 8

Capitoline

 

Museo delle civiltà romana, Mostra augustea 1937-1938

box 9

Sala I-IX

box 10

Sala X-XIX

box 11

Sala XX-XXIX

box 12

Sala XXX-XXXIX

box 13

Sala XL-XLIX

box 14

Sala L-LIX

box 15

Sala LX-LXIX

box 16

Sala LXX-LXXIX

box 17

Sala LXXX-LXXXII and unidentified rooms

box 18

Palazzo dei Conservatori, Palazzo Farnese, Palazzo Massimi alle Colonne, Terme, Villa Albani, Villa Giulia

 

Vatican City

box 19

Museo Chiaramonti

box 20, box 21

General

 

Other cities

box 22

A-N

box 23

O-R

box 24

S-Z