Getty Villa

Langdon Wilson
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J. Paul Getty Museum
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/27305
Date
1970-1974
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.
 
exterior, view with pool
 
Type of Work
Villa; Museum
Subject
Art museums, Villas, Herculaneum (Extinct city), Reproductions, Architecture --United States, Getty, J. Paul (Jean Paul), 1892-1976, Gardens, Swimming pools, Colonnades, Peristyles (Roman courtyards)
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by G. E. Kidder Smith
Rights Statement
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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