Experience 16 New Getty Museum Paintings With Art Projector

This light-hearted painting by Adriaen van de Venne was part of a series of four landscapes representing the seasons. This painting, thought to represent spring, and its companion, A Jeu de Paume Before a Country Palace (A Ball Game Before a Country Palace), both include imagery relating to love .

Adriaen van de Venne captured the idle pleasures of courtship and leisure in this small painting which probably represents summer. The paintings in the series have a miniature, jewel-like quality showing similar colorful scenes of tiny figures out in the open.

Representing aspiring Parisian actress Jeanne Demarsy as the embodiment of Spring, this portrait debuted at the last major public exhibition of Manet's life, the Paris Salon of 1882.

In the 1880s, the young James Ensor was an ambitious renegade. Dive into his subversive and eccentric world through the painting Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889.

Rembrandt often used himself as his own model in his early years as an independent master in Leiden. Here, in a small and freely painted work, he appears in the guise of a soldier, relaxed and engaging the viewer with a laugh.

The rolled-up drawing, over twelve feet long, would have been cranked through a peep box with a hole for daylight to illuminate the translucent paper from behind. Such amusements added theatrical effects to capitalize on quasi-scientific interest in optical illusion.

Within the drawing Louis Carmontelle captured many favorite outdoor diversions of the aristocracy in the late 1700s, including garden design and architecture.

To show the sitter's erudition, wealth, and status, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour placed de Rieux in his study, surrounded by fashionable and expensive objects.

During his long career, Rembrandt rarely painted mythological subjects. Here he conveys a narrative story through dramatic gesture and visual effects. Rembrandt took pleasure in describing the varied textures of sumptuous costumes and glittering gold highlights on the carriage and dresses.

From the safety of the cave where they have taken refuge, Lot's daughters gaze toward God's annihilation of the city of Sodom, an event taking place outside the painting's borders. Strong light rakes across the three figures, gracefully posed to reflect their pensive emotional states

This painting is part of a series of works executed by Gentileschi in 1622 for Giovanni Antonio Sauli’s Genoese Palazzo which includes the Getty’s Lot and His Daughters and a painting now in a private collection, The Penitent Magdalene.

The painting is a vivid hymn to the reawakening of nature in spring after a long, hard winter, a pantheistic work in which the landscape, the rural workers, and the animals evoke the cycle of nature. Segantini counted Spring in the Alps among his greatest paintings. 

During the last thirty years of his life, Paul Cézanne painted the same objects - a green vase, a rum bottle, a ginger pot, and apples - over and over again.

Through the play of light on surfaces, Chardin conveys the fuzzy skin of the peaches, the hard, brittle shell of the walnuts, the translucence of the grapes, and the heavy, cold exterior of the pewter mug.

On this first page of the pre-dawn service of Matins from this illuminated manuscript of the Hours of the Virgin, the Virgin and Child embrace within an initial D 

In this illuminated page by Joris Hoefnagel and Georg Bocskay an exuberant pink tulip and two plump pears share the page with an imaginary mosquito-like insect and a spider who seems to hang from the letters above, echoing the shape of the calligraphic flourishes that descend from the final line and serving as a clever artistic wink that brings text and image into visual harmony.