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Adriaen de Vries most often used a technique called "direct lost-wax casting." During the casting process, the wax of the original wax-and-clay model melts out, or is "lost," hence the technique's name. Because the model disappears, each...

The word "plastic" comes from the Greek verb plasso, meaning, "I model," and describes vases made via molding, which allowed artisans to reproduce complex human, animal, or plant shapes. Potters added handles and mouths to molded clay parts...

Since 1998 the Getty Conservation Institute has been working in partnership with the Institut National du Patrimoine to train conservation technicians to clean, monitor, and maintain mosiacs in situ so that they can be seen and studied in...

March 4, 2010, The Getty Villa Jo Marchant, author of Decoding the Heavens, and science historian and physicist James Evans join award-winning journalist and author Patt Morrison to discuss the Antikythera Mechanism, a unique object recovered...

June 4, 2011, The Getty Villa Clip 3: A Fermented Cacao Beverage from Central America In three highlight clips from this public lecture, Patrick McGovern, scientific director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the University...

June 4, 2011, The Getty Villa Clip 2: The World's Earliest Alcoholic Beverage from Jiahu, China In three highlight clips from this public lecture, Patrick McGovern, scientific director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the...

June 4, 2011, The Getty Villa Clip 1: A Fermented Mixed Drink with the "Midas Touch" In three highlight clips from this public lecture, Patrick McGovern, scientific director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the University...

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September 22, 2011, The Getty Center Illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages are significant for the literary texts they preserve. But they are also important, historically and culturally, for their illustrations of the life of Christ...

Video courtesy of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Athens. Watch more videos about Byzantium: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLij2XTFgmBSQskKvT13tl72SPNmFlMDA2 Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections...