Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...
The Getty Villa is part of the J ... It houses the trust's collection of Ancient Greek and Roman art. Fire departments used "state-of-the-art air handling systems" to help protect the building ...
In 1997, the decorative arts and paintings were moved to the Getty Center, and the villa was closed for conversion into a museum for Getty’s collection of Mediterranean antiquities. When it ...
It also houses Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity—some of which is partially held at its second campus, the Getty Villa. Days before the threat of fire reached ...
The fast-moving wildfire has so far burned vegetation at the Pacific Palisades museum but not the building.
the older Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, which arrays antiquities in a space designed to evoke a Roman country house, and the newer white-stone Getty Center in Brentwood where Vincent van G ...
The Center, which houses a sprawling collection of art in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a “marvel of anti-fire engineering.” The Villa, which focuses on ancient ...
The art galleries are located about 200 meters ... how to respond as the Pacific Palisades fire threatened the Getty Villa, a re-creation of a Roman villa on the Malibu coast.
For the next 28 hours, Borsay and 16 other staffers organized themselves to supplement fire department efforts and along the way contributed to helping keep the Getty Villa and its priceless art ...
Just ten miles away in Malibu, its sister building, the Getty Villa, facing flames that crept ... including 44,000 works of art and Greek and Roman antiquities, remain safe and perfectly preserved.