if you are wanting to look at over 300 books,
which are housed in the Los Angeles-based Getty Museum, which has developed a program to share more
than three hundred books in its Virtual
Library, above “The
Rosebud Garden of Girls” by Julia Cameron. Virtual Library title: “Julia
Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs” by Julian Cox, Colin Ford, Joanne
Lukitsh, and Philippa Wright,
over
the last five years each unabridged volume, drawn from the Getty Publications
Archive, has been cleared for copyright issues and is available for free
download, above “Art and Eternity: The Nefertari Wall Paintings Conservation Project 1986 –
1992” and “Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs” seeing the book mentioning Nefertari, I was reminded of this article where Cosmo
Wenman took some 3D scans of her head, despite, as he commented, the
state-run German museums reluctance to release the original scans, using
Germany’s freedom of information laws. The museum referred the matter to the
Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation — known in Germany as the Stiftung
Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) — which oversees Berlin’s state museums.
According to Wenman, the foundation initially refused to grant him full access
to the scans, instead offering him to inspect them in a controlled setting.
“The organization was treating its scan of Nefertiti like a state secret,” the
artist wrote in a recent
article about his campaign to release the files, it is an interesting story which is here if you fancy a read,
“Pilgrim
Flask and Cover with Marine Scenes” (circ 1565-1570), Workshop of Orazio
Fontana, tin-glazed earthenware. Virtual Library title: “Italian Ceramics:
Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection” by Catherine Hess, the
initiative is a way to keep compelling and historically important books
available even if they have, literally, gone out of print, topics in the
Virtual Library collection range from fine and decorative art genres to
features on specific artists, truly a researchers treasure trove.
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