New lighting, paired with casework of non-reflective glass, heightens the drama of encountering these objects. Objects are labeled with their place of creation, though not always pinpointed to a specific town/locality. Parking rates vary. A new gallery dedicated to the Roman villa presents sculptures and luxury items that evoke the opulence of an ancient Roman coastal estate. Before you start planning, you should know what's where. And opening April 18 at the Getty Villa is Palmyra: Loss and Remembrance, featuring masterpieces of funerary portraiture from the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, once a trading center that linked the Romans to the Parthians in what is today Iran and Iraq. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 75.AH.122, Gift of William Wahler. The hunt was one of the most frequently depicted royal activities, symbolizing the king’s supreme power over the most fearsome enemies. It's easy enough to put that address into your GPS, but if you overshoot the driveway entrance, you'll end up frustrated. Even a visitor with limited time can see in our new displays (and I hope, marvel at) how representations of the world evolved over some three thousand years of classical antiquity. Home to the J. 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. Congratulations. On your way to the parking garage, you may wonder why the driveway is so rough. I applied, took a 100-question test, and got the job. You'll see objects created over 7,000 years between the end of the Stone Age and the fall of the Roman Empire. An advance timed-entry ticket is required. Additional information is available at www.getty.edu. Starting April 18 our Villa galleries offer a new journey through ancient Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art. I hope your next visit to the reenvisioned Getty Villa will be such an experience, and I very much look forward to hearing what you think of the new galleries. It is closed Tuesdays, Thanksgiving, December 25 (Christmas Day), and January 1. Has the main/central pool been filled again? In 1954, oil tycoon J. Paul Getty opened a gallery adjacent to his home in Pacific Palisades. Culture and time are our organizing principles, as I’ve mentioned, but we applied them flexibly rather than dogmatically. Vehicles over 6'10" high and standard car length/width aren't allowed, and there is no oversized vehicle lot. As an artist and former history and art history student, I am very excited about the new installation. Books, 17 ft. 6 in. The presentation of the collection focuses on the development of art among the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. The sculptures likewise combine elements of Persian and Roman art. Photo © Ornan Rotem, 2017. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum. The journey continues on the second floor with sculpture, jewelry, glassware, mummy portraits, and many other works of art from the Roman Empire. Scenes in the throne room and reception halls typically emphasized the king’s military prowess and his status as the all-powerful ruler, sometimes in graphically brutal terms. In a very different way, the first temporary exhibition at the reinstalled Villa also situates the ancient world in its wider temporal and cultural context by exploring the continuing influence of the classical world on contemporary art. The fourteen panels on view at the Getty Villa create a compelling overview of the subjects, styles, and artistic achievements of Assyria’s sculptors, including outstanding masterpieces such as the ‘Banquet Scene’ of the last great king of Assyria, Ashurbanipal, reviled as ‘Sardanapalus’ in the Old Testament,” says Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. You can get their hours and more information on the Getty Villa website. Why, visitors often ask, were European-style portraits laid over traditional Egyptian mummies? This is the second long-term loan exhibition in the gallery devoted to The Classical World in Context, a new gallery at the Getty Villa highlighting cultures that influenced and interacted with the classical world of ancient Greece and Rome. I went there with a team to help move things, and somebody who worked at Getty told me there was a job opening for an art preparator. Because Egypt was occupied by Greeks and later Romans. In the mid-eighth century B.C.