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Title
Roman Busts, outer peristyle
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued
1980
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
The Villa, modeled after a first-century Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, was constructed in the early 1970s by the architectural firm of Langdon and Wilson. Architectural consultant Norman Neuerburg worked closely with J. Paul Getty to develop the interior and exterior details, based on elements from ancient Roman houses in the towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. Admission to the Getty Villa, located at 17985 West Pacific Coast Highway, is free, but only a limited number of visitors are allowed in each day and demand is very high, so tickets need to be obtained in advance.
A museum visitor walks past Roman busts located on one side of the peristyle at the Getty Villa Museum, located at 17985 West Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. The center of the peristyle is adorned with hedge-lined pathways and stone benches and plants such as bay laurel, boxwood, myrtle, ivy, and oleander, are planted around a spectacular 220-foot-long reflecting pool.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00068030
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Malibu-Museums-Getty Villa.
CARL0000070805
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/125355
Subject
Getty Villa (Malibu, Calif.)
Busts, Roman
Museum visitors--California--Los Angeles
Peristyles--California--Los Angeles
Museums--California--Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles)
Architecture, Domestic--California--Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles)--Roman influences
Statues--California--Los Angeles
Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Neuerburg, Norman
Langdon & Wilson

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