Cahiers
The Foundation continues its educational activities with a series of publications entitled Cahiers. These compact volumes are aimed at giving new value and perspective to the collection of art, as well as the historical and archaeological research and studies.
The latest book released in April 2021 of the Cahiers series is Le gioie di collezionare by J. Paul Getty. This autobiography is a collection of anecdotes narrated by one of the most famous American oil entrepreneurs and, above all, an insatiable collector of art and antiquities. This volume offers a brilliant testimony of the collector’s modus operandi, ranging from the study to the selection and acquisition of art masterpieces around the world.
Published for the first time in 1965, these memoirs offer a fascinating portrait of a visionary personality, endowed with a prodigious memory, and genuinely persuaded of the edifying power of art. For Getty, art collecting can be counted among one of the most mesmerizing and fulfilling activities one can pursue.
The Foundation continues its educational activities with a series of publications entitled Cahiers. These compact volumes are aimed at giving new value and perspective to the collection of art, as well as the historical and archaeological research and studies.
The Foundation continues its educational activities with a series of publications entitled Cahiers. These compact volumes are aimed at giving new value and perspective to the collection of art, as well as the historical and archaeological research and studies.
The latest book released in April 2021 of the Cahiers series is Le gioie di collezionare by J. Paul Getty. This autobiography is a collection of anecdotes narrated by one of the most famous American oil entrepreneurs and, above all, an insatiable collector of art and antiquities. This volume offers a brilliant testimony of the collector’s modus operandi, ranging from the study to the selection and acquisition of art masterpieces around the world.
Published for the first time in 1965, these memoirs offer a fascinating portrait of a visionary personality, endowed with a prodigious memory, and genuinely persuaded of the edifying power of art. For Getty, art collecting can be counted among one of the most mesmerizing and fulfilling activities one can pursue.
The first volume of the collection is Cerveteri, Pyrgi e le origini degli etruschi, edited by Vincenzo Bellelli and Folco Biagi. This text, quite different in character from the following publication, intends to revive, after a century of oblivion,the writings and excavation reports of the priest Sabino De Nisco, alongside the main results of the historical-archaeological research on Cerveteri.
This small text, enriched by three maps attached to the book, contains two short publications of 1909 that De Nisco dedicates to the origins of the city of Cerveteri and a reflection on the birth of the Etruscan civilization and the divinity of the temple of Pyrgi.