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Artists in the Romantic period found endless inspiration in the beauty and power of nature. This exhibition highlights how these artists depicted the landscape, from detailed botanical studies to vast […]
April 2, 2025
The first exhibition ever to focus on the multiple connections between drawing and printmaking, this presentation brings together around 90 works on paper by some of the greatest artists in […]
January 13, 2025
This call seeks proposals for 20-minute papers that address the history of European blue paper from the fourteenth century until 1800. Open to art historians, curators, conservators, conservation scientists, paper historians, papermakers, and dyers, successful proposals will demonstrate original archival research and/or object-based approach to their discussion of works on
June 26, 2024
Through new technical examination of drawings in the Getty’s collection, this exhibition offers fresh insight into the physical properties of blue paper, and its unique contribution to artistic practice from the 15th through 18th centuries.
February 12, 2024
Focusing on the 15th and 16th centuries, this presentation by Massumeh Farhad, curator of Persian, Arab, and Turkish art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, examines the careful preparation and application of pigments as well as their role and function within the context of Persian manuscripts.
February 12, 2024
A panel discussion focusing on the collaborative research between art historians and conservators examined in the newly released Getty publication Drawing on Blue: European Drawings on Blue Paper, 1400s–1700s, and associated exhibition, Drawing on Blue (January 30 – April 28, 2024).
November 13, 2023