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Getty Villa
Found in
Pompeii, created
in 20 BC and
survived Mt.
Vesuvius’
eruption.
The Lamp Bearer
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Modeled after a firstcentury Roman country
house, the Villa dei Papiri
in Herculaneum, Italy,
buried in the eruption of
Mt. Vesuvius.
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Over 1,200 works
are on view in 23
galleries devoted
to the permanent
collection, with five
additional galleries
for changing
exhibitions.
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Artifacts date from
6,500 B.C. to A.D.
400, with
monumental
sculptures as well
as artifacts of
everyday life.
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Found in the sea off the coast
of Italy
One of the few life-size Greek
bronzes to have survived
Shows technology of ancient
bronze casting.
Romans probably carried the
statue off from its original
location during the first century
B.C. or A.D., when Roman
collecting of Greek art was at
its height.
Getty Villa Gardens
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Gardens are
integral to the
setting of the Getty
Villa, as they were
in the ancient
Roman home
Getty Villa Gardens
Plants favored by the ancient
Romans, such as bay laurel,
boxwood, myrtle, ivy, and
oleander, are planted around a
spectacular 220-foot-long
reflecting pool.
Sculpted bronze civet heads
spout playful streams from the
fountain at the center of the
East gardens.
The Iliad and the Odyssey
at the Getty Villa
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The judgment of Paris,
the event that sparked
the Trojan War,
decorates one side of
this black-figure neckamphora. In Greek
mythology
Terracotta, about 570
BCE, found in Etruria
The Iliad and the Odyssey
at the Getty Villa
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A standard depiction of the
ambush of Troilos, prince of
Troy, by the Greek hero
Achilles during the Trojan
War.
A strange dog-headed
creature sits atop the
fountain and may actually be
jackal-headed, meant to
recall the Egyptian god
Anubis.
Egyptian and Phoenician
cartouche-shaped rings,
popular in Etruria in the later
500s B.C.
The Iliad and the Odyssey
at the Getty Villa
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Menelaos, king of
Sparta, reclaiming his
wife Helen after the
Trojan War
Looking on is the
goddess Athena, her
name written beside
her in Greek.
This piece comes from
a strap on the inside
of a shield, a piece of
leather with strips of
bronze.
About 575 BCE
The Iliad and the Odyssey
at the Getty Villa
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Odysseus and his men were
trapped in the cave of
Polyphemos, a Cyclops who
was devouring them one by
one.
In order to escape, the
Greeks got the giant drunk
and then put out his single
eye with a sharpened stake.
Terra cotta, about 650 BCE
The Iliad and the Odyssey
at the Getty Villa
Odysseus and his men escape from
one-eyed giant Polyphemos The
escape from the cave was the most
popular episode from the Odyssey
represented in Greek art.
Terracotta about 575 B.C.
Odysseus’s Head
The Iliad and the Odyssey
at the Getty Villa
Mixing vessel with Odysseus
escaping from the Cyclops.
Terracotta, about 560 BCE