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Interior of Alfredo Boulton’s Pampatar House, Margarita Island, about 1950s, Fotografía Maxim. Gelatin silver print. Partial donation of the Alberto Vollmer Foundation. Getty Research Institute
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ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Mid-century mod, Venezuelan style
When the eccentric intellectual Alfredo Boulton began remodeling his vacation house on a Venezuelan island in the early 1950s, the 18th-century mansion was in a state of decay. But with an obsessive eye, Boulton brought together pre-Hispanic and colonial cultural traditions with the latest avant-garde styles in modern art and architecture—and then invited artists, intellectuals, and socialites for sumptuous dinners and boozy nights.
Step into Boulton’s Pampatar house
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Las rancherías de Pampatar №171/ Rural Settlement in Pampatar №171j, 1942, Alfredo Boulton. Gelatin silver print. Getty Research Institute
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ANCIENT LIFE
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How to merge with the gods
Scholar Foy Scalf has spent the last several years focused on the Book of the Dead, a huge body of religious writings focused on helping the deceased achieve a blessed afterlife. “Ancient cultures struggled with many of the same things we do—including how to have a meaningful life in a complicated environment,” says Scalf. “Finding such similarities between people many continents and millennia apart helps to build a shared empathy and understanding between us.”
Meet Foy Scalf
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Foy Scalf of the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
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EXHIBITIONS
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FAMILY FUN
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TALK
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Going Viral in the Renaissance featuring Stephanie Porras
Saturday, December 2, 4:00–5:30 pm
Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall
What do today’s TikTok dances and Renaissance prints have in common? In this talk, Stephanie Porras describes how early modern prints invited repetition and emulation, taking advantage of new media technologies and emerging global infrastructures long before the invention of the Internet. After the talk, join us for a wine and cheese reception inspired by the artworks.
Get free tickets
Watch online
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Left: Hispano-Philippine, St Michael the Archangel, about 1630, ivory with polychromy and gilding. Mexico City, Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Right: Limeño, St Michael the archangel with donor, about 1630, oil on canvas. Lima, San Pedro
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BEFORE YOU GO
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Right: A Turkey, about 1733, Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, model by Johann Joachim Kändler. Hard-paste porcelain. Getty Museum. Left: A Fox with a Chicken, about 1732, Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, model by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner. Hard-paste porcelain with traces of oil paint. Getty Museum
This life-size turkey was produced at the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory in Dresden, Germany, with hard-paste porcelain. The recently discovered, still-experimental clay was thick, heavy, and shrank unevenly, and meticulously sculpted artworks would frequently crack and collapse in the kiln. This tom is only a little cracked, though, and stands as an important example of an early ceramic artwork. Come see him and his foxy friend at the Getty Center in the East Pavilion. Or watch this Smarthistory video,
Meissen Porcelain Animals: Getty Conversations.
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