and making through a system of “mobile images”: motifs that were effectively engineered for mobility and designed never to be definitive

in this extraordinary book

much of it conducted in the Lawrence Alloway Papers held by the Getty Research Institute

Veronica Franco

the work done by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Foundation

Roman Miniature Skeleton - Reproduction Valentine 2023 and making through a systemReproduction of a Roman miniature bronze skeleton in the collection of the Getty Villa Museum. Made of bronze, this 1st century Roman articulated skeleton in the collection of the Getty Museum features round eye sockets and a wide, grinning mouth with large upper teeth. Its arms now missing and only the upper part of one leg remaining, the skeleton, referred to by the Romans as larva convivalis, meaning banquet ghost, was once made to jump and dance