Getty was something of a miser, he was a misanthrope, and he was a thoroughly unpleasant person to most people who knew him, but he was a passionate collector.
Getty ordered this built from his house in London in the 1970s and he based it off of a Roman villa that had been excavated just outside of Pompeii and it had been buried
Getty , which the Getty decided not to share with the Italians, though they were promising their full cooperation.
Getty has really been a pioneer in this area.
Getty sells them. People find them through Getty .
Gettysburg, the Union was—it was called a fish hook, so, basically with one big line, Dan Sickles was at the end. He marched out pretty far. And that's what got attacked and
to Getty , et cetera, and there weren't that many images left.
And Getty was right on it.
So Getty didn't like to spend money when he didn't have to.
Eventually Getty went on to build a much larger building for his collection; this is the Getty Villa today.
The Getty had been wrestling with the issue of whether and how to acquire antiquities particularly antiquities that appeared to have been recently excavated for many years.
The Getty was aggressively trying to build its collection but it kept running up into this issue, which is a lot of these objects on the market, in fact Harold Williams had
The Getty bought the Statute of Aphrodite for $18 million, it was a record price at the time and American museums kept buying looted antiquities really for the next few
The Getty , by the way, has photographs of the Aphrodite in this kind of very disturbing state just after it arrived in Switzerland; it's kind of being poured out of a bag with
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the Getty Museum in Los Angeles for ten million dollars. And the Getty Museum commissioned some scientific tests which suggested that the marble the statue was made of was, in
So like the Getty releases and a lot of them have this crazy legal language, it's actually legally better to have a simple release that just says Catherine Hall can use, and I'm
And so the Getty Museum has its origins in a tax dodge.
And so Getty had found the plans for this Roman villa and built what we today call the Getty Villa to emulate that villa and filled it with his art collection, his rapidly growing
Overnight the Getty became, went from a very kind of provincial, middling, regional museum that not a lot of people visited to the richest art museum in the world, a status that it
So when Getty died in '76 he bequeathed his money but it was tied up in litigation until the early 80s.
for the Getty not the Statute of Aphrodite.
And so what the Getty did is they said, "We're gonna notify foreign governments in the likely country of origin.
then sold to the Getty .
So the Getty Museum in 2005, is confronted by Italian authorities with this shocking evidence and they're forced to do something that they'd been reluctant to do for years;
So the Getty based on its own internal investigation created its own org chart.
Flickr's got the Getty deal which is 20 percent payout which is terrible which Google can totally rock that.
So in the Getty Image database as a whole, people have connections of 3.26.
So you said that Getty was like just comprehensive, well ordered and so on; TMZ chaotic is the
and the Battle of Gettysburg fought to save the Union.
the Battlefield of Gettysburg, and I watched a film about Gettysburg.
plus Los Angeles County and Getty paid arts internships for introducing her/them to the various vibrant art and music scenes
were then bought out by Getty Images and started their own stock photography site in Canada based on the idea, basically, of pushing back
to take a tour of the new Getty Center and see the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He was the architect for the Getty Museum.
Harold Williams was the CEO of the Getty Trust, the umbrella foundation over the museum.
So the decision at the Getty was to never gain that knowledge and absent that knowledge they thought they'd be safe.
The reason is because this is the Getty 's Apollo, this is a statute of Apollo that's been on display at the Getty and here is the Apollo soon after it came out of the ground.
And then these things going to the Getty .
And it wasn't just the Getty , I want it to be clear through these headlines that what the Getty had been doing was really a case study in American museums in the 70s, 80s,
The first thing is we looked at Getty Images. And the reason we picked Getty Images as opposed to any other photographic database is because it just is more consistent and robust.
If you're a part of the Getty network you're degrees of separation are 3.26.
process when we look at Getty Images database anyway, okay, these are elites.
But if you look at Getty it's-it's really at these-these formal events. I mean Getty has very little by way of the sort of accidental photographs of stars.
knew he had started at Gettysburg. Almost nobody heard him say that. The one thing wrong about it is when he said no one would remember very long what he said there.
And that's why you have watermarks on places like Getty Images.
J. Paul Getty was, in his day, the world's richest man.
Getty never saw this museum, he, from really the 1950s on, lived in London and Europe,
Well, the Getty could afford to buy from them and so this is who she went to visit.
The existing acquisition policy in 1987 said that the Getty museum wouldn't be able to buy anything if it had any reason to believe it has been illegally exported from its country