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Getty Villa

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Creator(s)
architectural firm: Langdon Wilson (American, 1951-)
Time period
creation date: 1970-1974
Location
Site: Malibu (California, United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90265The Getty Villa is modeled after the Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Italy, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
interior, colonnade, inner peristyle
Work type
Villa
Museum
Medium
marble
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Type
Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by G. E. Kidder Smith
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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