Art at the Getty Center

This is mostly a catalog of what inspired me and my imagination, or otherwise important stuff.

This is a glass that was used for drinking games in the 1300-1400s. The nose was from where you'd drink:

This next picture might have been my favorite. It is a scene of cormorant hunters in the Venetian lagoon, but really the scene takes place in the early years of what would become Venice. Houses got built on dry patches in the lagoon, those houses were shifted into palaces as income increased, and then those lagoon islands came together into what we have today. But first, there were Italic hunters fleeing the Germanic hordes in the lagoon:

Walking by, the ladies here caught my eye. Dang, I thought, that sure looks like da Vinci. It was, mostly. It came from his workshop studio, so if he didn't do those faces and flowing dresses specifically, they were done in specifically his style:

Euclid! This is the well-known mathematician Euclid who in antiquity compiled all the known material on Geometry into a book, known as the Elements, and even though the amount of original work attributed to him is low, what he did with compilation was so important, he is remembered very fondly throughout the discipline:

Here's a closeup of his Elements:

This one made me laugh. There's fight going on in the center, with the guy on the right squirting lemon in the eye of the guy on the left while the two on the far right laugh at them. The lady on the far left seems unduly scared:

A very cool 1700s microscope:

The largest pastel in the world, a portrait of the French parliament's president:

Cool battle-mace from Minerva, goddess of war:

The first black portrait, something for which both Victor and I were keeping an eye out:

Monet's wheat-stacks:

Van Gogh's lilies:

There were also two pieces from  Gauguin, a few Cezannes, and a few other names from the early modern age (Degas, Matisse, etc...). That particular room was relatively small compared with the rest of the collection, but it did have heavyweights.

We'll have to go back to make sure we caught everything, but likely not for a time.