J. Paul Getty
Museum
this museum is another in the J. Paul Getty
Trust, but houses artworks and includes two museums with one in
the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the other, the Getty Villa,
in the Pacific Palisades. The center houses the western art from
the Middles Ages to the current day, welcoming over 1.3 million
visitors each year so that it is now one of the most visited
museums in the nation, while the villa houses artworks from
ancient Greece, Etruria and Rome. Getty would open the second
museum in Pacific Palisades that was a replica of the Villa of
the Papyri in Herculaneum, and in 1982, it would inherit $1.2
billion to become the wealthiest museum in the world. The Getty
center contains works according to type or medium and these
include; sculpture, architecture and room elements, photographs,
decorative objects and vases, paintings, drawings, manuscripts,
furniture and implements and costumes. Some of the most famous
artists include; Bemis, Bellini, Blake, Bol, Boucher, Brueghel
the Elder, Brueghel the Younger, Burrows, Canaletto, Carpaccio,
Cervi, Champaigne, Chardin, Cezanne, Chapelle, Chardin,
Chantilly, Close, Constantin, Corot, Cranach the Elder,
Delacroix, Degas, della Bella, Durer, Eakins and El Greco; plus
many many more.
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