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🌱✨ Happy Norwuz! ✨🌱 As we celebrate the arrival of spring and the season of renewal, we also honor the deep and vibrant history of Iran—home to some of the world’s most influential ancient empires. 🌸📜 The story begins with Cyrus the Great, whose founding of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE created one of antiquity’s most powerful and far‑reaching civilizations. Stretching from Greece’s borders to northern India, Persia stood as a center of immense wealth, culture, and innovation. 👑🌍 Even after the fall of the Achaemenids to Alexander the Great in 330 BCE, Persian identity flourished. The Parthian and Sasanian dynasties rose to reclaim and reshape the empire’s legacy—engaging, trading, and often clashing with giants like Greece and Rome. ⚔️🏺 All of this and more is explored in the richly illustrated book "Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World". Featuring over 300 images—from sculpture and jewelry to silver vessels, coins, gems, and inscriptions—the book traces centuries of artistic, religious, political, and cultural exchange across three great civilizations. 📘✨ May this Norwuz bring light, renewal, and a deeper appreciation of the remarkable heritage that continues to inspire today. 💛🌿 Norwuz Pirouz! 🌼🎉 Learn more here: gty.art/3OLSScM #Norwuz #Nowruz #PersianNewYear #AncientIran #PersiaBook #History #CulturalHeritage

🌸 Happy Women’s History Month! 🌸 To celebrate, we’re offering 30% off our Illuminating Women Artist’s Series 🎨✨—including inspiring titles like "Artemisia Gentileschi", "Maria Sibylla Merian", and "Louise Moillon"! 💡 Discount code: GPWHM2026 🔗 Learn more here: gty.art/3PcKHq9

March is Youth Art Month! 👩‍🎨🎨🖌️✨ This week we're highlighting "If..." by Sarah Perry, a delightful picture book of “surreal possibilities” and Getty’s very first children’s title. Twenty-five years later it remains a visual feast that children of all ages enjoy. 💕✨🌀 Reissued to celebrate a remarkable book’s 25th anniversary, this enhanced edition includes new illustrations and a reader’s guide to the secrets of "If…" and is sure to appeal to a brand-new generation. 🎇 Learn more here: gty.art/3QQG3vf

✨Happy Women's History Month!✨ This week we're spotlighting Japanese American national treasure and San Francisco legend Ruth Asawa! Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. Asawa nurtured her dreams of becoming an artist while imprisoned and eventually made her way to the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. 🎨🖌️👩‍🎨 This graphic biography by Sam Nakahira, developed in consultation with Asawa’s youngest daughter, Addie Lanier, chronicles the genesis of Asawa as an artist—from the horror of Pearl Harbor to her transformative education at Black Mountain College to building a life in San Francisco, where she would further develop and refine her groundbreaking sculpture. Asawa never sought fame, preferring to work on her own terms: for her, art and life were one. Featuring lively illustrations and photographs of Asawa’s artwork, this graphic retelling of her young adult years demonstrates the transformative power of making art. Learn more here: gty.art/4jOTrOx

💙🎉 Happy Birthday Anna Atkins! 🎉💙 The fearless female photography pioneer was born on this day in 1799. 📅✨ In "Anna Atkins: Photographer, Naturalist, Innovator", author Corey Keller explores the life and art of this Victorian scientist and artist. 📘🔬🎨 Atkins earned the respect of the scientific community with her ambitious multivolume album "Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions"—now recognized as the world’s first photographically illustrated book. 🌿📖 Her brilliant blue cyanotypes 💙🟦, celebrated for both their scientific precision and artistic beauty, paved the way for new creative uses of experimental photographic technology. Read this Getty News & Stories piece to learn more about the pioneering photographer: gty.art/46GObXT 💙📘 Happy Birthday, Anna! 💐

🎨 Welcome back to this week's installment celebrating Youth Art Month! 🌟 This week, we're spotlighting “Wall to Wall: Mural Art around the World”! 🌍🖌️✨ Perfect for ages 10–14, this book transforms the global history of murals and wall art into an engaging, colorful adventure. From ancient cave drawings in remote Patagonia to a desert castle in Jordan, from a royal palace in the Republic of Benin to the National Palace of Mexico, from a miles-long flood channel in Los Angeles to a sky-high rooftop in Norway—mural art truly spans the world. 🌎🎨🏰🌆 In Wall to Wall, award-winning author, illustrator, and muralist Mary Ann Fraser takes readers on a journey through time and across continents, exploring extraordinary murals both famous and hidden. 🚀🌈 Stunning illustrations and captivating photographs bring each stop to life, while lighthearted storytelling reveals the people and cultures behind these vibrant works. 👩‍🎨📚🖼️ 🔗 Learn more here: gty.art/4h7IzIy

📚March is Women's History Month!📚 This week, we're spotlighting the ever-so-glamorous and mightily talented Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun with our young adult book "Daring: The Life and Art of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun"! ✨💥 She started painting as a teenager, using her intelligence and beauty to attract powerful clients, who relied on her to style the personal identities they wanted to project to the world. 💅👩‍🎨🖌️🎨 She went on to become a painter to royalty, even painting portraits of Marie Antoinette 👑🇫🇷✨ and many other European nobles! 👑🏰 After the French Revolution, when people demanded change to centuries-old systems of oppression, Vigée Le Brun was forced to run for her life, taking her young daughter but leaving her husband behind. Making her way through the countrysides and capitals of Europe and Russia—including a stay at the imperial court of Catherine the Great—the artist conquered fear and adversity to refashion her life and art. 🎨🖌️✨ Learn more here: gty.art/4lFlZcJ

🌍✨ It's International Women's Day! ✨🌍 This year, we're celebrating by throwing it way back to the women of the ancient world—specifically the Kingdom of Nubia, located in what is now Sudan and southern Egypt. 👑🏺 In ancient Nubia, women ruled with power and authority equal to their male counterparts. They oversaw eras of remarkable political, social, and artistic growth. 📜🎨 Their impact—and so much more—is explored in Rita E. Freed's new book, "Ancient Nubian Art: A History." 📘 Learn more about the extraordinary women of ancient Nubia in this article: 👉 gty.art/4aOT3fY 💪🌸 #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistory #AncientNubia #GirlPower Image credits: Fig 7.53 Line Drawing of Queen Amanitore (right) and King Natakamani from the Facade of Apedemak Temple, Naga, Sudan, Meroitic period, mid-first century CE. General Research Division, The New York Public Library. “Aethiopen. Naga [Naqa]. Tempel a. Vorderseite des Pylons.” New York Public Library Digital Collections.

🎉 Happy Birthday to Michelangelo! 🎂🖌️ Born on this day in 1475, the fame and influence of Michelangelo Buonarroti were as immediate as they were unprecedented. 🌟🇮🇹 Michelangelo was the only living artist Giorgio Vasari included in the first edition of Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550). 📚✨ Revised and expanded in 1568, Vasari’s monumental work spans more than two hundred biographies and remains a cornerstone of art history and Italian Renaissance studies. 🏛️📖 Vasari’s biography of Michelangelo celebrates his oeuvre as the culminating achievement of Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture. 🎨🗿 He recounts the artist’s expansive career—from his working habits, to the creation of masterpieces like the David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling, to Michelangelo’s relationships with popes and other illustrious patrons. 👑🔥 An introduction by scholar David Hemsoll traces the textual development of Vasari’s Lives and places Michelangelo’s biography within the broader tapestry of Renaissance art history. 🧐🏛️ 🔗 Learn more about The Life of Michelangelo here: gty.art/4r1MM5f

🎨 March is Youth Art Month! 🌟 Each week, we'll bring a different young adult or children's book from Getty Publications to you! 📚✨ This week we're highlighting “The Traveling Camera: Lewis Hine and the Fight to End Child Labor”! 📸🕊️ Beautifully illustrated by Michael Garland and poetically written by Alexandra S. D. Hinrichs, this children's book tells the inspiring story of Lewis Hine (1874–1940) — a teacher and photographer who used his art as a powerful tool for social reform. 🌍💪 Working for the National Child Labor Committee, Hine traveled the United States, documenting children as young as five working under dangerous conditions in cotton mills, seafood canneries, farms, and coal mines. ⚙️🏭⛏️ He often wore disguises to gain access to factories, posing as a machinery inspector or traveling salesman. 🎩🕵️‍♂️ He once said, "If I could tell this story in words, I wouldn't need to lug a camera." His poignant photographs captured the nation’s attention and helped pave the way for child labor laws. 📷⚖️ 🔗 Learn more here:gty.art/40GcNfL

✨ New Release Spotlight: "Ancient Nubian Art: A History" by Rita E. Freed ✨ wtih a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. For more than eight millennia, the kingdoms of Nubia shaped the cultural, artistic, and political landscape of the ancient world. Stretching across a vast region with connections to Greece, Rome, sub-Saharan Africa, the Red Sea, and the Sahel, Nubia nurtured an artistic legacy as expansive as its influence. Yet its achievements—monumental architecture, radiant jewelry, masterful ceramics, visionary sculpture—have long been overshadowed or miscast as peripheral to Egypt. Rita E. Freed’s "Ancient Nubian Art: A History" sets the record powerfully straight. Drawing on her deep expertise as curator emerita at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—home to the largest Nubian collection outside the Nile Valley—Freed presents the first comprehensive and accessible survey of Nubian artistic culture. She traces its evolution across thousands of years, illuminating vibrant traditions of kingship and queenship, spirituality, identity, gender, innovation, and international exchange. Enriched with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and insights from leading scholars, this landmark volume invites readers to see Nubia as it truly was: a world-shaping civilization of extraordinary creativity and complexity. 📘 Join us for a special book event celebrating this groundbreaking publication! 📍 Harvard Book Store 📅 March 4, 2026 🕖 7:00 PM Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the art, history, and legacy of one of the ancient world’s most influential cultures—and to hear directly from the experts bringing Nubia’s story to light. gty.art/4cqo9vv

March is Women's History Month! 🎉👩‍🎨📚 Celebrate with us as we highlight titles that showcase some of the greatest women artists who changed the art world forever! ✨🎨 First off is “Anna Atkins: Photographer, Naturalist, Innovator” 📖🔬📷 — a young-adult book that delves into the incredible science and artistry of the world’s first female photographer and a pioneer of the medium. 🌿💙 Despite gender norms of the time, which typically limited women to a life within the home, Atkins gained the respect of the scientific community with her ambitious multivolume album “Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions” — now recognized as the world’s first photographically illustrated book. 📘✨ Her cyanotypes, in addition to their scientific accuracy, lent artistic beauty to her publications, setting the stage for new uses of this experimental technology. 🔵🌊 In an era filled with groundbreaking inventions and innovative ideas, Atkins pushed photography forward in its earliest days with courage, creativity, and brilliance. 💡📷💪 Learn more about Anna Atkins here: 🔗💙 gty.art/4u9C1kk Images: Adiantum assimile from British and Foreign Ferns by Anna Atkins and Anne Dixon, 1853. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.XO.227.68 Polypodium pinnatum, Jamaica from British and Foreign Ferns by Anna Atkins and Anne Dixon, 1853. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.XO.227.50

🎉 New Open Access Release! 🎉 We’re thrilled to celebrate the launch of "Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt, Volume 2: Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project"—now available free online for everyone to read, explore, and download. Nearly a thousand surviving funerary portraits from Roman Egypt allow us to meet people who lived two millennia ago, their faces preserved on exquisitely painted panels once wrapped with mummified remains. These portraits are some of the most intimate and compelling works from the ancient world—and the APPEAR Project has been bringing global experts together to study them in unprecedented depth. This new volume gathers seventeen research papers presented at the 2022 APPEAR conference, sharing fresh insights from conservators, scientists, and curators around the world. Topics include: 🖼️ Technical imaging 🔬 Nondestructive analysis 🌍 Provenance and collecting histories 🛠️ Conservation and treatment 🎨 Woods, pigments, coatings, and binders 💡 Cross-institution comparisons, connoisseurship, and even forgeries Whether you're a researcher, student, curator, conservator, or simply fascinated by ancient faces and artistic technologies, this volume is an invaluable resource. ✨ Best of all? It’s open access. Read the full online edition—with zoomable images and interactive graphs—or download the free PDF or EPUB here: 👉 gty.art/4riaJGI Here’s to knowledge shared freely, global collaboration, and seeing the ancient world with new clarity. #OpenAccess #GettyPublications #MummyPortraits #APPEARProject #AncientArt #Archaeology #ConservationScience #RomanEgypt

🐾💙 Happy National Love Your Pet Day! 💙🐾 Spending today with my favorite little art critic—who clearly takes reading by the pool very seriously. 😼📚✨ We’re flipping through "Irises: Vincent van Gogh in the Garden", a gorgeous deep dive into how Van Gogh painted his famous Irises while recovering at Saint-Rémy. The book explores how he saw nature as healing and divine—something my furry friend seems to understand instinctively. 🌿💛 With vibrant full‑color reproductions of Irises and other stunning garden scenes by Van Gogh (plus works by artists who inspired him—hi Monet, Dürer, Da Vinci, Gauguin! 🎨), it’s basically the perfect companion for a sunny day with a perfect companion. Here’s to pets who make life brighter, books that make life richer, and moments that feel like art. 💐🐱💙 gty.art/4aptgJU #LoveYourPetDay #VanGogh #Irises #ArtLovers #PetLovers #GettyMuseum #CaturdayEveryday

Quire is pleased to be exhibiting alongside Getty Publications at CAA 2026. On February 20 at 2 p.m. please join the authors of "Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City" and "The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975" for a meet-and-greet and publication demo at booth #321.

Hello! 👋 We will be at CAA — come find us at booth 321! 🎉 Hours are as follows: 📅 Thursday & Friday: 9am–6pm 📅 Saturday: 9am–2:30pm We look forward to seeing you there! 😊✨

✨ Black History Month Spotlight ✨ This month, we honor the stories, images, and histories that reveal the depth and brilliance of the Black experience. Today’s highlight: "Rediscovering Black Portraiture", a moving and imaginative journey through a millennium of Black representation in Western art. Led by artist and performer Peter Brathwaite, this book traces his remarkable project that began during the early days of the COVID‑19 pandemic—creatively reimagining historical portraits of Black sitters and sharing them on social media under the caption “Rediscovering #blackportraiture through #gettymuseumchallenge.” 📘 This powerful volume brings together more than fifty of these striking recreations, pairing Brathwaite’s contemporary reinterpretations with the original artworks and expert essays that deepen our understanding of identity, visibility, and the African diaspora. Featuring works ranging from medieval Europe to the present day—including pieces by Georges Trubert, Jan Mostaert, Sonia Boyce, and Kehinde Wiley—the book confronts the ways Black individuals have been both represented and erased throughout art history. Brathwaite’s recreations don’t just echo the past—they challenge us to look again. To ask who gets to be seen, who gets to be remembered, and how art can reclaim stories long pushed to the margins. Urgent, insightful, and deeply human, "Rediscovering Black Portraiture" reminds us that Black subjects have always been part of the artistic canon—and that their stories deserve to be honored, studied, and uplifted. gty.art/4tJqKHg #BlackHistoryMonth #RediscoveringBlackPortraiture #PeterBrathwaite #ArtHistory #RepresentationMatters #AfricanDiaspora #GettyPublications

If diamonds are a girl’s best friend… consider this our Valentine. 💎❤️ "Beyond Adornment: Jewelry and Identity in Art" explores why we wear jewelry, what it means to us, and what we hope it communicates across time. Featuring spectacular works of art filled with symbolic sparkle—perfectly channeled here by the ever-glamorous Marlene Dietrich. ✨ gty.art/4qoJMQo Image: Marlene Dietrich, Desire, 1936 Allstar Picture Library Limited. / Alamy Stock Photo #ValentinesDay #ArtHistory #Jewelry #BeyondAdornment

✨ Black History Month Spotlight ✨ This month, we honor the artists whose voices, visions, and histories continue to shape our cultural landscape. Today, we’re celebrating María Magdalena Campos-Pons, an extraordinary artist whose work amplifies stories long overlooked and invites us to see the world—and ourselves—with greater depth. 📖 "María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold" offers the first major critical look at her work in nearly twenty years, tracing a forty‑year career rooted in memory, migration, identity, and ancestral connection. Born in Cuba and working across the United States, Campos-Pons blends photography, sculpture, film, performance, and spiritual traditions—from feminism to Santería—to create art that’s as layered as the histories it holds. Her autobiographical practice honors her Nigerian and Chinese ancestors while confronting the complexities of race, belonging, and agency. Her work doesn’t just tell stories—it urges change. It asks us to reflect, to reckon, and to behold the beauty and truth found in every lived experience. This book is a powerful tribute to an artist whose voice continues to reshape how we see art, history, and each other. #BlackHistoryMonth #MaríaMagdalenaCamposPons #Behold #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt #WomenInArt #CulturalHeritage #GettyPublications gty.art/4riaxY0

🔬✨ Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience! Today we’re celebrating Anna Atkins, often considered the world’s first female photographer—and a scientific pioneer who defied 19th‑century gender norms. Her cyanotype masterpiece Photographs of British Algae is now recognized as the first photographically illustrated book 💙📘 Learn more in "Anna Atkins: Photographer, Naturalist, Innovator" from @GettyMuseum / Getty Publications! gty.art/3NLag0R #WomenInScience #STEM #AnnaAtkins #PhotographyHistory