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 ...

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 ...

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

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

the 64-acre Getty Villa houses more than 44,000 objects, including priceless antiquities — Roman, Greek and Etruscan relics dating from 6,500 BC to AD 400. The most prized piece in the ...

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 ...

The Getty Villa remains temporarily closed as artworks ... who led a slave revolt against the crushing overlords of the Roman Republic. Unsurprisingly, some of that movie’s blunt-force musculari ...

The Getty Villa is a Getty museum showcasing Greek and Roman art from before the Middle Ages, as well as rotating special exhibitions. Wander through the re-created Roman country home with a large ...

Founded by J. Paul Getty, the villa's design was inspired by ancient Roman country homes. Its Greek and Roman antiquities, which include a 2,000-year-old mummy, have been on display to the public ...