In a highly unusual move, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the National Portrait Gallery in London will jointly buy Joshua Reynolds’s “Portrait of Mai (Omai),” considered one of ...

A portrait painting aims to be specific. A genre painting, on the other hand, is — well, generic. ... Where: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood When: ...

A joint purchase of Joshua Reynolds' heralded "Portrait of 'Mai,'" between London's National Portrait Gallery and the Getty, was at first nixed.

The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Artemisia’s Strong Women: Rescuing a Masterpiece, an exhibition celebrating the completion of a complex, three-year conservation treatment of Hercules and ...

On July 10, 1973, 16-year-old John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty was kidnapped. He was held for a hefty ransom. During his time in captivity, his ear was brutally severed.

The painter whose portrait of Donald Trump was removed from the Colorado state Capitol after the US president branded it “truly the worst” says the criticism has put her four-decade art career ...

After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, it has been painstakingly restored over more than three years — and is now on show at ...

Timothy Potts, the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, described Hercules and Omphale in a statement as “one of the most important recent discoveries within the corpus of Artemisia Gentileschi ...

Joshua Reynolds’s famed Portrait of Mai (around 1776)—which was jointly acquired by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2023—is ...

Cassia Davis/J. Paul Getty Trust “It’s very poetic the way she turns, she turns (Omphale’s) head, this upright gaze,” Birkmaier said, explaining that many of her female figures mimic that ...