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PRELIMINARY INVENTORY OF THE STUDY PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTURE
76.P.7
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Title: Study photographs of ancient architectural sculpture
Date (inclusive): 1900s
Number: 76.P.7
Creator/Collector:
Getty Research Institute
Physical Description:
33.2 linear feet
(159 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: A collection of modern photographs assembled by the Getty Research Institute of architectural sculpture, mostly detached from
the original location, concentrating on works of the Greek and Roman periods, from the Greek Archaic through the late Roman
Empire (6 century BC-6th century AD). Coverage is most complete for works from sites in Greece and Italy, but the collection
includes images of architectural sculpture from monuments in other countries, including Albania, Algeria, Egypt, England,
France, Germany, Lebanon, Libya, Romania, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.
Language: Collection material is in
English
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.
The
Photo Archive Database includes photograph level access to approximately 55% of the photographs in this collection.
Open for use by qualified researchers. For further information, consult the
Guide to the Photo Archive and Database .
Photographs and permission to publish must be obtained from copyright holder(s). For further information, contact
Library Reproductions and Permissions .
Finding aid created in 2009.
Scope and Content of Collection
An assembled collection of modern photographs of architectural sculpture, mostly detached from the original location, concentrating
on works of the Greek and Roman periods, from the Greek Archaic through the late Roman Empire (6 century BC-6th century AD).
Coverage is most complete for works from sites in Greece and Italy, but the collection includes images of architectural sculpture
from monuments in other countries, including Albania, Algeria, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Lebanon, Libya, Romania, Syria,
Tunisia, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. The cities for which major documentation of monuments exists are Athens and Olympia in Greece;
Rome (particularly the Ara Pacis Augustae, Arch of Constantine, and Column of Trajan) and Selinus in Italy; Aphrodisias and
Ephesus in Turkey.
The collection includes photographs from numerous sources, including commercial vendors and photographers; research institutions'
archives; excavation campaigns; scholars' archives and collections; and photographic campaigns sponsored by the Getty Research
Institute. Among the commercial vendors and photographers, the most important are: Alinari (including the Anderson and Brogi
archives), Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Bulloz, Photographie Giraudon, Gabinetto fotografico nazionale (GFN) Rome, Hirmer Verlag,
Barbara Bini, Alison Frantz, Guntram Koch, and Emile Serafis.
Research institutions' archives from which new prints were made include: Fototeca unione at the American Academy in Rome;
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI), Athens and Rome; and the American School of Classical Studies, Athens.
Excavation campaigns from which the collection holds selected photographs include those of Princeton University at Morgantina
(Sicily); Bryn Mawr College at Murlo (Italy); the American Academy in Rome at Cosa (Italy); and the photographic record made
by Eugene Gordon of excavations at Heracleia Lyncestra (Yugoslavia) and Aquincum (Hungary) as well as his photos of archaeological
remains at Agrigento and Taormina (Sicily) and Aphrodisias, Aspendos, Ephesus, Perge, and Side (Turkey).
Photographic campaigns sponsored by the repository have contributed extensive coverage of three monuments in Rome. The Column
of Trajan is documented in 1,169 photographs, 977 of which show every 30 cm. of the friezes after cleaning and restoration
carried out in the 1980s. The Arch of Constantine is represented in circa 315 photos and the Ara Pacis Augustae in circa 300
photos. The collection also includes photographs from the repository's Giovanni Becatti and Ludwig Goldscheider archives.
Arrangement is geographical, filed alphabetically by name of modern country, then name of ancient city or site, and monument.
Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973 -- Photograph collections
Goldscheider, Ludwig, 1896-1973 -- Photograph collections
Ara Pacis (Rome, Italy)
Arch of Constantine (Rome, Italy)
Decoration and ornament, Ancient
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Sculpture, Ancient
Sculpture, Ancient--Italy
Sculpture, Ancient--Turkey
Sculpture, Greek
Sculpture, Greek--Italy, Southern
Sculpture, Greek--Italy--Sicily
Sculpture, Roman
Sculpture, Roman--Italy
Trajan's Column (Rome, Italy)
Cosa (Extinct city)
Greece--Antiquities
Italy--Antiquities
Morgantina (Extinct city)
Poggio Civitate Site (Italy)
Turkey--Antiquities
Photographic prints
Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973
Bini, Barbara
Frantz, Alison
Getty Research Institute
Goldscheider, Ludwig, 1896-1973
Gordon, Eugene
Koch, Guntram
Serafis, Emile