Books in the BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER series

Offers a visual tour of the treasures to found both inside and outside the Getty Centre. This title features photos that showcase the Centre's world-class architecture and design.

This catalogue explores the workings of Rembrandt's studio in the form of drawings made by the master himself and fifteen of his pupils.

An illustrated account of the Getty Museum's research into outdoor sculpture conservation.

Focusing on the centuries in which the phenomenon of collecting came powerfully into its own, this title analyzes the radical recontextualization of celebrated paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, and Rubens; brings to light a lost holy tower from fifteenth-century Bavaria; and offers new insights into the meaning of 'sacred' and 'profane'.

This work, covering the years 1816-1820, makes the contents of some of the tens of thousands of sales catalogues published during the 19th century accessible to scholars. Information provided includes sales dates and lot numbers, prices and names of buyers and sellers, and locations of auctions.

Ranging from ancient Roman moldmade glass to modern pressed glass, this glossary is a handy guide for museum-goers and anyone interested in the art of glassmaking.

A review of the literature on the impact of light sources, particularly photo and reprographic flash, on art and archival materials. It should be useful to museum conservators, conservation scientists, and museum and technical libraries.

This timely volume brings together case studies that address the urgent need to manage energy use and improve thermal comfort in modern buildings while preserving their historic significance and character.

Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality. Presenting new scholarship, this publication is the first comprehensive study of the Concrete art movement in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1940s to the 1960s.

Two kittens from ancient Egypt take an unexpected journey to Rome in this new twist on one of Aesop's most beloved fables.

A beautifully illustrated, accessible volume about one of the Getty Center's best-loved sites.

Beginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of paintings or sculpture, touch or sight, colour or design, ancient or modern. This title lets us eavesdrop on a contentious topic that preoccupied European intellectuals for three hundred years.

This is a companion volume to "Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adode Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adode Project", and it offers guidance for planners, architects and engineers in the retrofitting of historic and culturally significant adode structures.