Paul Getty, according to the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservancy. The art patron modeled the site off a Roman country house buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. Three decades after its ...
Under siege by Los Angeles ... the Getty’s two campuses: the older Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, which arrays antiquities in a space designed to evoke a Roman country house, and the ...
Paul Getty opened the Getty Villa to the public in 1974, according to the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservancy and the museum's website. The villa was built to house Getty's "vast collection" of ...
Flames from one of the wildfires raging across the Los Angeles region reached the ... The museum, which is operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust and houses its collection of Ancient Greek and ...
The iconic Eames House, Getty Villa, and other Los Angeles landmarks are still at risk of destruction amid raging wildfires across Southern California. But what are the other buildings impacted by ...
along the Los Angeles coastline, burning more than 1,000 structures and displacing tens of thousands of people from Santa Monica and Brentwood to Topanga, Malibu and beyond. “The Getty Villa in ...
Rumors that the historic Eames House burned proved not true, as The Times confirmed that this gem of midcentury design — one of Los Angeles’ most important architectural landmarks — remained ...
Part of the University of California, Los Angeles is also located in the ... s galleries “are safe and protected.” The Getty Villa, which houses the trust’s educational center, has not ...
The iconic Eames House, Getty Villa, and other Los Angeles landmarks are still at risk of destruction amid raging wildfires across Southern California. But what are the other buildings impacted by the ...
After ripping through thousands of buildings, wildfires in Los Angeles were looming Saturday ... 12,500 tons of steel bars. "The Getty was constructed to house valuable art and keep it very ...