The Getty Research Institute published its first digital-born research project, Pietro Mellini’s Inventory in Verse, 1681: A Digital Facsimile with Translation and Commentary, an unpublished seventeenth-century manuscript in the GRI’s Special Collections. Viewers can examine high-resolution manuscript images that are zoomable, side-by-side windows that compare facsimile, transcription, and English translation, as well as highlighted text…
If you’re having trouble visualizing how ancient Roman silversmiths fashioned their works, here is a video that deconstructs, and then reconstructs, one of a pair of silver and gold cups currently featured in a rare exhibition of Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Treasure from Berthouville on view at the Getty Villa until August 15,…
The Getty Foundation partnered with leading art museums to launch the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) that offers online browsing of each museum’s chosen highlights and scholarly content. The goal of the initiative is to “create models for online catalogues that will dramatically increase access to museum collections; make available new, interdisciplinary, up-to-date research; and…
Last year we reported on the Open Content project at the Getty Research Institute. In an exciting update the GRI just announced the addition of 77,000 new images. The bulk of these are from the Foto Arte Minore collection: photographs of art and architecture in Italy by Max Hutzel. These photos, shot in the 1950s…
Getty Publications is now offering users (free of charge!) digital copies of 235 Getty backlist titles, including many that are now out of print, from the Museum, the Conservation Institute, and the Research Institute. For additional information on digital publication resources offered by the Getty, click here.
Google has recently unveiled Google Open Gallery, created as part of the Google Cultural Institute. It allows users to create online exhibitions, in the manner of Omeka. It is targeted at museums and galleries, and has already partnered with the Getty and LACMA; however some of the sample galleries on their site have been created…