And in room 108 stands a 1,900-year-old statue of Hercules, a real alpha-male figure that reputedly inspired Getty to built the museum in the design of a Roman villa. Upstairs, room 217 holds an ...

The recreated Roman villa, which often hosts high-profile events among the art, remained unharmed. According to Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the museum was ...

Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...

I was fortunate enough to volunteer at the museum for several months while in high school, working in the Ranch House where Mr. Getty once lived, behind the villa. It is one thing to see Greek and ...

The Getty Villa opened in 1974 by Billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, according to the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservancy. The art patron modeled the site off a Roman country house buried by the ...

The Getty Villa is part of the J ... It houses the trust's collection of Ancient Greek and Roman art. Fire departments used "state-of-the-art air handling systems" to help protect the building ...

The fast-moving wildfire has so far burned vegetation at the Pacific Palisades museum but not the building.

is described on the Getty website as a “marvel of anti-fire engineering.” The Villa, which focuses on ancient Greek and Roman art, also has a well-tuned anti-fire protocol that kept it intact ...

at about 7 a.m., the Getty’s Emergency Planning Specialist Les Borsay arrived at the Getty Villa in Malibu. “This was not normally a day I would have necessarily been out there,” Borsay told ...

the older Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, which arrays antiquities in a space designed to evoke a Roman country house, and the newer white-stone Getty Center in Brentwood where Vincent van G ...