Getty Research Journal, No. 12

The Getty Research Journal features the work of art historians, museum curators, conservators from around the world as part of the Gettys mission to promote the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the worlds artistic legacy. Articles present original scholarship related to the Gettys collections, initiatives, and research.

This issue features essays on works by Bolognese painter Guido Reni and his studio; a collection of late nineteenth-century images by one of Irans most prolific photographers, Antoin Sevruguin; Le Corbusiers encounters with and monumentalization of the konak, a type of Ottoman house; the correspondence between Ren Magritte and his wife while he stayed at the London home of patron and collector Edward James; the activities of Belgian surrealist douard Lon Thodore Mesens as art dealer and collector; and art historian and critic Leo Steinbergs unpublished research on Titian.

Shorter texts include notices on three joining fragments of an Urartian bronze belt; a sketchbook newly attributed to Florentine architect, engineer, and set designer Giulio Parigi; photo albums documenting the plague pandemic in late nineteenth-century Bombay; four scrapbooks produced by Neue Sachlichkeit photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch; and the correspondence between Swiss curator Harald Szeemann and Russian artist Lev Nusberg.

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260 pages
7 x 10 inches
101 color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-650-8
ISSN 1944-8740
paperback

Getty Publications
Imprint: Getty Research Institute

2020