Getty Villa Floor

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Getty villa floor.

Admission is free but a timed entry ticket is required. Explore the exhibition from home. One of two locations of the j. 17985 pacific coast highway pacific palisades ca 90272.

Details of floor and wall designs come from several other greek and roman edifices. Pacific palisades ca 90272. Several newly reinstalled galleries on the first floor of the getty villa feature objects that speak to both their ancient and modern histories. Gallery 105 known as the hall of colored marbles is dominated by a marble statue of venus.

Only part of the villa was excavated but from floor plans architects were able to recreate the dimensions of the ancient roman villa. The building now known as the getty villa was built by j. For evening events parking is 10 after 6 pm. The getty villa and pompei s villa dei papiri.

Getty readily admitted that he enjoyed the company of women and when the villa first opened in 1974. A visit to the getty villa offers an experience of ancient greek and roman art in a setting that recreates a first century roman villa. Vesuvius in 79 ce along with the famous cities of pompeii and herculaneum. Visiting the getty villa gives visitors the unique.

Home to the j. Paul getty museum the getty villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient greece rome and etruria the collection has 44 000 greek roman and etruscan antiquities. Paul getty museum s antiquities collection the two floor museum displays art that spans the 7 000 years from the end of the stone age to the fall of the roman empire. 15 after 3 pm.

As an appropriate setting for his collection getty set out to create a replica of the villa dei papiri an ancient seaside luxury retreat at herculaneum italy. Paul getty modeled the malibu villa after the villa dei papiri in herculenium near pompeii. The visitor s path begins on the first floor rooms devoted to. Los angeles the getty villa is modeled on the villa dei papiri at herculaneum an ancient roman villa buried by the eruption of mount vesuvius in ad 79.

Since 2006 when the getty villa opened as a museum dedicated to the cultures of the ancient mediterranean the collection has been presented along thematic lines with galleries dedicated to subjects such as ancient theater athletes and competition and gods and goddesses. The getty villa built in the 1970s was based on the plans of the villa dei papiri villa of the papyruses discovered in the bay of naples and destroyed by mt. Paul getty in the early 70s to house an ever growing art collection that included many classical antiquities. 17985 pacific coast highway.