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Can you guess the artwork from the signature? #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesSignatures
Happy Midsummer, or glad midsommar, to all who celebrate! 🌸🌿🌼
Midsummer is largely a European celebration to mark the start of summer and the long days of endless sun that come with it. If you spent your winter in darkness, you'd celebrate, too!
We're delighted to welcome a pastel by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard into the Getty.
Labille-Guiard was one of the leading women artists in 18th-century Europe.
"Portrait of Madame Charles Mitoire with Her Children" shows a fashionably dressed woman with her two young sons.
Meet Herakleides.
TW: human remains
Our conservators analyzed his mummy to understand the methods and materials used to create his portrait and burial shroud and to learn about his life in Egypt under the Roman Empire.
Dive into the online exhibition: https://t.co/ADiki30FQZ
We love a good detail, don’t you? Scroll this thread to reveal which works they come from.
Meet one of the most significant influencers of the field of entomology: Maria Sibylla Merian.
She was a 17th-century illustrator and naturalist with a lifelong interest in the life cycles of insects. This bouquet is from her book "The European Insects." #ArchivesBugs
Good news: all of the Getty Museum's Open Content artwork images — images in the public domain, usable for any purpose — are now accessible on @googlearts.
Hey, you. 👋 Yes, you! Stop scrolling for a sec and tell us what catches your eye.
Is it the delicate, tiny micro-writing? The vibrant colors of the flora and fauna, or the intricate textures on the dragonfly and snail? Or perhaps the fruit that looks good enough to eat?
A group of lifelike mummy portraits from the 1st to 3rd centuries brings us face to face with people who lived in Egypt under the Roman Empire.
Learn everything you need to know about these portraits in the online exhibition “Faces of Roman Egypt.”
https://t.co/GC7eo2hjx6