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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, United States

The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens (short as The Huntington), is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927) and Arabella Huntington (1851–1924) and located in San Marino, California, United States. The Huntington is a research and cultural center surrounded by 120 acres spread…

North Pavilion of Getty Center, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States

North Pavilion exhibited medieval and Renaissance sculpture and decorative arts, and rotating exhibitions of illuminated manuscripts. The newly designed European sculpture and decorative arts galleries in the North Pavilion at the Getty Center are arranged according to period and theme, with different materials, including two-dimensional works of art, intermingled to…

East Pavilion of Getty Center, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States

East Pavilion exhibited european sculpture and Italian decorative arts from 1600 to 1800. Included a generous selection of Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. The objects collected are sumptuous and refined pieces of the highest quality that have significantly enriched the Italian Decorative Arts galleries. Masterpieces…

South Pavilion of Getty Center, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States

South Pavilion exhibited French decorative arts from 1600 to 1800, including elaborately furnished paneled rooms. The exceptional collection of French decorative arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum contains more than four hundred objects, most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Getty’s French decorative arts form…

West Pavilion of Getty Center, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States

The West Pavilion, which houses sculpture and decorative arts of the 1700s and 1800s, along with 19th-century paintings and changing exhibitions of drawings and photographs. The collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum on display at the Getty Center includes “pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts;…