{"title":"Conservator’s Note on the Bust of Ottavio Farnese at the J. Paul Getty Museum","authors":"Julie Wolfe","doi":"10.1086/716579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716579","url":null,"abstract":"This technical summary describes the condition of the sixteenth-century bust of Ottavio Farnese at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The text, which describes the conservation treatment of the sculpture at the Getty, accompanies the essay by Luca Annibali in the same issue.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":"39 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48979378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Hart, M. Ganio, Susan Lansing Maish, D. MacLennan, K. Trentelman
{"title":"Vittae Auratae: Interpreting the History and Technology of a Group of Roman Gold Textile Fragments","authors":"M. Hart, M. Ganio, Susan Lansing Maish, D. MacLennan, K. Trentelman","doi":"10.1086/716571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716571","url":null,"abstract":"Fifty-six gold fragments—forty-nine pieces of woven textile and seven of twisted cord—from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum were the subject of an art historical and scientific study to ascertain their original form, function, and method of manufacture. The fragments were examined through the use of noninvasive technologies, including digital microscopy, X-radiography, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopic (SEM-EDS) analysis, and scanning macro-X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) spectroscopy. By these means, it was possible to determine the chemical composition of the gold threads and details of the ancient weave, which enabled the authors to digitally reconstruct the original form of the more well-preserved fragments. Historical research supports the interpretation of the reconstructed sections, suggesting that the original artifact closely resembles ribbons of woven gold (vittae) found in Italy and dating to the late Hellenistic through the early Imperial Roman periods (ca. 100 BCE–200 CE).","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":"1 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41543508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reinventing the Architectural Drawing in Pompeii: Objectivity and Romanticism around 1830","authors":"Gabriel Batalla-Lagleyre","doi":"10.1086/713431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713431","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1820s and 1830s, a new generation of French architects who would later be defined as Romantic was dispatched to the Villa Medici in Rome. In parallel with their official work, these pensionnaires instigated a new way of drawing the monuments of antiquity. This new approach was based on a social and collective practice that incorporated the act of copying and ushered in a new standard of objectivity that came with its own graphic norms. Based on research into several hundred little-known drawings and previously unpublished archival material, this article takes Pompeii as a case study. It presents the epistemology of a purportedly revolutionary approach to drawing, highlighting the networks of exchange that structured the world of architecture within the context of academic training.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"87 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713431","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45898683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Greenberg’s Marxism: Clement Greenberg’s Unfinished Essay Draft on André Breton’s “Political Position of Surrealism” (1935)","authors":"Daniel Neofetou","doi":"10.1086/716587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716587","url":null,"abstract":"This previously unpublished transcript of an undated and incomplete handwritten essay on surrealist doyen André Breton by American art critic Clement Greenberg is illuminating in terms of the otherwise somewhat oblique connection between politics and avant-garde art for the younger Greenberg, the precise nature of whose professed Marxism has long been contested. It was composed in response to Breton’s “Political Position of Surrealism” (1935). In his text, Greenberg argues that Breton is correct in his claim that radical artists should not let questions of politics distract them from autonomous work. However, unlike Breton, he does not contend that this is the case because such artists will be vindicated by future audiences and should, accordingly, work in defiance of a mass audience. Rather, Greenberg argues that no other mode of working opens up new fields of aesthetic experience while bemoaning the state of affairs where such art is inaccessible to the working class, ultimately calling for revolution to rectify the situation.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":"205 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46431504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1848–Atuona, 1903): Inventor of the Readymade?","authors":"Anne Pingeot","doi":"10.1086/713434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713434","url":null,"abstract":"Anne-Lise Desmas and Anne Pingeot address arguments that disprove the attribution of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Head with Horns to Paul Gauguin. As an introductory essay, Desmas traces the sculpture through the historiography of Gauguin before its reappearance in 1997; she demonstrates that its attribution to the artist, already proposed—with no hard evidence—two decades after Gauguin’s death, quickly took hold among scholars, despite doubts expressed by certain specialists and arguments that could have disproved it as early as 1969. Pingeot recounts the contradictory opinions expressed by Gauguin scholars since 1997 and especially after 2002, when it was exhibited for the first time in the United States. Examining the sculpture from a perspective that reaches beyond conventional connoisseurship, she sheds light on Gauguin’s creative appropriation of objects and artworks that he absorbed and made his own. She proposes that while Gauguin was not the first author of Head with Horns, the sculpture became his own, and the artist could in turn be considered the inventor of the readymade.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"157 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713434","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46447302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discorso delle medaglie antiche: Collecting Ancient Coins and Detecting Fakes in Early Seventeenth-Century Rome","authors":"Giulia Zaccariotto","doi":"10.1086/716580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716580","url":null,"abstract":"This article unearths a seventeenth-century manuscript on numismatics from the collections of the Getty Research Institute. This unique copy of Discorso delle medaglie antiche (Discourse on ancient medals), by an unidentified author and of which other nonidentical versions exist, is transcribed and studied here for the first time. Divided into nineteen chapters, the manuscript discusses the main precepts for collecting ancient coins and, above all, explains in detail how to recognize fakes produced by unscrupulous antiquarians. The final part of the manuscript instructs the collector on conserving, cleaning, and cataloging the coins. Various clues in the text suggest that the manuscript was written in a Roman context in the first half of the seventeenth century and lead to the hypothesis that the author is numismatist Francesco Gottifredi: prime expert in recognizing fakes, collector of rare Roman coins, and consultant to the most important collectors of his time.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":"45 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44660061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Manet’s Portrait of Madame Brunet: Recent Investigations","authors":"Scott Allan","doi":"10.1086/716582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716582","url":null,"abstract":"Édouard Manet’s life-size Portrait of Madame Brunet is a key work from the artist’s early career, but it has yet to be the subject of a focused study. This essay, drawing on archival research and technical examination undertaken since the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired the painting in 2011, delves into lingering questions surrounding the identity of Madame Brunet, the portrait’s initial genesis and reception, and its early material history.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":"103 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48012191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Performance for the Service of a Table”: New Light on Eighteenth-Century Dining","authors":"T. Murdoch","doi":"10.1086/716585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716585","url":null,"abstract":"Eighteenth-century cookbooks from the Anne Willan and Mark Cherniavsky Gastronomy Collection at the Getty Research Institute and the gastronomy collection bequeathed to the Warburg Institute by Elizabeth David provide evidence for the influence of Huguenot immigrants on gastronomy in elite European circles. Recipes and ingredients influenced the forms of new vessels: the terrine for serving soup, the surtout in the table center for dessert fruits. During the 1730s, cookery writers Charles Carter and Vincent La Chapelle illustrated table settings enhanced by light from silver candlesticks for evening dining that resemble branch lights on candelabra made by goldsmith Paul de Lamerie in London for Britain’s first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and single candlesticks for Huguenot banker Peter Le Heup. Both sets were personalized with the patrons’ coats of arms. La Chapelle’s illustrations of the terrine and surtout set standards for similar vessels designed and supplied by other contemporary goldsmiths, including Nicholas Sprimont.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":"181 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/716585","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47146238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corbusian Monumentality: The Legacy of the Konak from Vernacular System to Modernist Monument","authors":"A. Saden, H. Sever","doi":"10.1086/708315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/708315","url":null,"abstract":"Commentators on the work of Le Corbusier have alternately admired his functionalist and standardizing approach to monumentality and accused him of overly conforming to academic and classical understandings of the monument. This article takes a different approach to understanding Le Corbusier’s monuments by exploring his transformation of vernacular architectural systems into visual experiences. Specifically, we trace a lineage between Le Corbusier’s fascination with the Ottoman house type known as the konak and the implementation of the elements of his seminal manifesto “The Five Points of a New Architecture” (1929) within the Villa Savoye. We examine the context of Le Corbusier’s encounters with the konak and build a case for it as a systemic influence on Le Corbusier’s work of the 1920s. Through comparing the Villa Savoye and its Ottoman precedent, we then examine Le Corbusier’s monumentalization of the konak: the conversion of a system arising out of local concerns into a modernist monument.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"49 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/708315","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44324958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading an “Album” from Qajar Iran","authors":"Sandra Williams","doi":"10.1086/708314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/708314","url":null,"abstract":"In the late nineteenth century, westerners traveling and living in the Middle East frequently purchased photographs from commercial studios that they used as memory aids and visual corroboration of their travel tales. The Getty Research Institute recently acquired such a collection of mounted albumen photographs recording late nineteenth-century Iran, which were likely purchased by a European and bound together as an album, now dispersed. This article conducts a close reading and historical contextualization of the photographs to analyze the purchaser’s interests and reconstruct a potential partial narrative for the album. It also analyzes the commercial practice of one of Iran’s most prolific photographers, Antoin Sevruguin (ca. 1851–1933), and suggests a new framework for reading photographs attributed to his studio.","PeriodicalId":41510,"journal":{"name":"Getty Research Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"29 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/708314","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48370138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}