Finding aid for the study photographs of ancient architecture 76.P.6
Ann Harrison
Special Collections
2009
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Study photographs of ancient architecture
Creator:
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
Creator:
Accademia di San Luca
Creator:
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Classics
Creator:
Serafis, Emile
Creator:
Packer, James E.
Creator:
Frantz, Alison
Creator:
Getty Research Institute
Creator:
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926
Creator:
Gordon, Eugene
Creator:
Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973
Creator:
Goldscheider, Ludwig, 1896-1973
Creator:
Giuliano, Antonio
Creator:
Bini, Barbara
Creator:
Aran, Berge
Creator:
Koch, Guntram
Creator:
MacDonald, William L. (William Lloyd), 1921-
Identifier/Call Number: 76.P.6
Physical Description:
131 Linear Feet
(625 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1900s
Abstract: A collection of modern photographs of ancient sites and monuments assembled by the Getty Resarch Institute, concentrating
on Greek and Roman architecture from the Greek Archaic through the late Roman Empire (6th century BC-6th century AD). Coverage
is most complete for sites and monuments located in Greece and Italy, but the collection also includes photos of sites located
in other countries, including Albania, Algeria, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya,
Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.
Language of Material:
English
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Processing History
Finding aid created in 2009.
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Biographical/Historical Note
In 1974, the J. Paul Getty Museum began assembling a "photo library" by consolidating the visual resources of each existing
curatorial department. By the early 1980s, the Photo Archive was actively acquiring large collections of photographs from
commercial and private sources and scholars' archives that contained a photographic component. In 1983, the nearly one million
photographs of the Photo Archive were incorporated into the Research Institute's Special Collections.
Scope and Content of Collection
An assembled collection of modern photographs of ancient sites and monuments, concentrating on Greek and Roman architecture
from the Greek Archaic through the late Roman Empire (6th century BC-6th century AD). Coverage is most complete for sites
and monuments located in Greece and Italy, but the collection also includes photos of sites located in other countries, including
Albania, Algeria, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Syria,
Tunisia, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. The cities for which major photographic documentation exists are, in Greece: Athens, Corinth,
Delphi, Eleusis, Epidauros, Kos, and Olympia; in Italy: Agrigentum, Caere, Cosa, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Ostia, Paestum, Pompeii,
Puteoli, Rome, Selinus, Syracuse, Tarracina, and Tivoli; Baalbek, Lebanon; Cyrene and Leptis Magna in Libya; Augusta Emerita,
Spain; Palmyra, Syria; Thugga, Tunisia; in Turkey: Aphrodisias, Ephesus, Istanbul, Pergamon, Perge, and Priene; and Split,
Yugoslavia.
The collection includes photographs from numerous sources, including commercial vendors and photographers; research institutions'
archives; excavation campaigns; scholars' archives and collections; and photographic campaigns sponsored by the Getty Research
Institute. Among the commercial vendors and photographers, the most important are: Alinari (including the Anderson and Brogi
archives); Bulloz; Photographie Giraudon; Gabinetto fotografico nazionale, Rome, including the Antonio Giuliano collection;
Hirmer Verlag; Barbara Bini; Alison Frantz; Guntram Koch; and Emile Serafis.
Research institutions' archives from which copy prints were acquired include: the Fototeca unione at the American Academy
in Rome; Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI), Athens and Rome; California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA; École
national supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris; and American School of Classical Studies, Athens. Photographs were also acquired
from the Dept. of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles.
Excavation campaigns from which the collection holds selected photographs include those of Princeton University at Morgantina
(Sicily); Bryn Mawr College at Murlo (Italy); the American Academy in Rome at Cosa (Italy); and the photographic record made
by Eugene Gordon of excavations at Heracleia Lyncestra (Yugoslavia) and Aquincum (Hungary) as well as his photos of archaeological
remains at Agrigento and Taormina (Sicily) and Aphrodisias, Aspendos, Ephesus, Perge, and Side (Turkey).
The collection holds photographs from a number of scholars' archives. Material from Berge Aran (1,516 photographs) depicts
Roman, Byzantine, and vernacular monuments and structures in Turkey. William L. MacDonald's collection contributed study and
publication photographs of ancient Roman architecture, particularly Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Approximately 200 copy prints
depicting ancient Greek and Roman sites in the Near East were made from the Gertrude Bell archive at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
(a catalog of the original collection of circa 6,000 images made between 1905-1914 was published in 1982). In addition, the
collection includes photographs from the repository's Giovanni Becatti and Ludwig Goldscheider archives.
Photographic campaigns sponsored by the repository between 1987-1991 produced several groups of photographs within the collection,
for each of which the repository holds both prints and negatives. From a project directed by William L. MacDonald, circa 450
images document Hadrian's villa at Tivoli, concentrating on overviews and details of the architecture, mosaics, and 18th-19th
century graffiti. A group of 556 photographs of the Forum of Trajan in Rome come from a campaign directed by James E. Packer,
designed to record significant architectural remains and to use photography to produce the first measured, large-scale, accurate
archaeological site map of the Forum (cf. Special Collections, accn. no. 830054). Documentation includes photographs of the
de Romanis drawings in the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, views of architectural fragments belonging to the Forum still on
site or in Roman museums, and numerous aerial views and overview sections. Approximately 170 photographs taken by Barbara
Bini provide complete documentation of the villa of Poppea at ancient Oplontis.
A project in 1988-89 produced 3,650 photographs documenting Roman architecture and art in most of the Roman sites in southern
France. From another campaign come circa 1,500 photographs of 19th century architectural studies (drawings and watercolors)
in the collection of the Ecole des beaux-arts in Paris (a number of the original studies were exhibited at the J. Paul Getty
Museum in 1982). The drawings depict Pompeii, Greek sites, and Roman architecture, and include actual state and reconstruction
drawings as well as detail studies of ancient architecture. Approximately 900 photographs commissioned from Roberto Sigismondi
depict architecture in the ancient region of Campania known as the Campi Flegrei.
Arrangement
Arrangement is geographical, filed alphabetically by name of modern country, then name of ancient city or site, and monument.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architecture -- Italy -- Phlegraean Plain
Villa of Oplontis (Torre Annunziata, Italy)
Forum of Trajan (Rome, Italy)
Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy)
Architectural drawing -- France -- 19th century
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy
Cosa (Extinct city)
Morgantina (Extinct city)
Architecture, Roman -- France
Architecture, Ancient
Architecture, Roman -- Turkey
Architecture, Greek
Architecture, Greek -- Italy
Architecture, Greek -- Turkey
Poggio Civitate Site (Italy)
Negatives
Phlegraean Plain (Italy) -- Antiquities
Photographic prints
Architecture, Roman
Architecture, Roman -- Italy
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Classics -- Photograph collections
Aran, Berge -- Photograph collections
Goldscheider, Ludwig, 1896-1973 -- Photograph collections
Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973 -- Photograph collections
MacDonald, William L. (William Lloyd), 1921- -- Photograph collections
Study photographs of ancient architecture
box 3, box 4, box 5, box 6, box 7, box 8
Southern France Project
Scope and Contents
Photographic campaign sponsored by the Getty Research Institute to document ancient Roman architecture in southern France.
box 16
Acquae Sextiae Salluviorum
box 20, box 21, box 22, box 23, box 24
box 25, box 26, box 27, box 28, box 29
box 31
Beaumont, Cabelio, Carpentorate, Cassinomagus
box 38
Forum Segusiavorum, Grand-Champ (Puy-de-Dôme)
box 41, box 42, box 43, box 44, box 45, box 46, box 47
box 48
Mediolanum Santonum, Mont Doré
box 50, box 51, box 52, box 53
box 61, box 62, box 63, box 64
box 69, box 70, box 71, box 72, box 73, box 74, box 75, box 76, box 77, box 78, box 79, box 80
box 82, box 83, box 84, box 85, box 86, box 87
box 88, box 89, box 90, box 91, box 92
box 95
Aegosthena, Amphilochian Argos, Amphipolis, Amyklai, Argive Heraion, Argos, Arkhades, Astypalaia, Atalante
box 96
General views, maps, plans, models
box 97, box 98, box 99, box 100, box 101
Acropolis
Scope and Contents
Includes general views, maps, plans, minor monuments and excavations on the slopes. For major monuments, see appropriate
category below.
box 103
Aqueducts and water systems
box 104
Complexes
Scope and Contents
Includes the Roman Agora, the Sanctuary of Asklepios, and the Sanctuary of Olympian Zeus.
box 106, box 107, box 108, box 109
box 110
Other gates
Scope and Contents
Includes Beule Gate, Dipylon Gate, Eastern Propylon of the Roman Agora, Gate of Athena Archegetis, Propylon of the Sanctuary
of Olympian Zeus.
box 115, box 116, box 117, box 118, box 119, box 120, box 121, box 122
box 123
Hekatompedon and Old Athena Temple
box 124, box 125, box 126, box 127, box 128, box 129
box 133
Temple of Roma and Augustus
box 134
Shrine of Eros and Aphrodite, Shrine of Herakles, Shrine of Tritopatreis, Southeast Temple, Temple of Ares, Temple of Artemis
Agrotera
box 138
Agoranomion, Horologion of Andronikos
box 140
Pompeion, Prison of Socrates, Quatrefoil building, Tholos
box 145
Chaeronea, Chalkis, Chiliadou
box 146, box 147, box 148, box 149, box 150
box 151, box 152, box 153
box 154, box 155, box 156, box 157, box 158
box 159
Demetrias, Dodona, Dystos
box 162, box 163, box 164
box 165, box 166, box 167
box 168
Gournia, Gyphtokastro, Hagia Triada, Halai, Halieis, Ialysos, Ikaria
box 169
Isthmia, Ithaca, Kabirion, Kalydon, Kalymnos
box 171
Kardamyle, Kenchreae, Keos
box 171, box 172, box 173
box 174, box 175, box 176, box 177, box 178, box 179
box 181
Lasithi, Lato, Laurion, Lechaion, Lerna, Lesbos, Lindos, Lykosura
box 182
Macedonia, Mallia, Mantinea, Marathon, Megalopolis, Megara, Messene, Monemvasia, Mount Athos
box 184
Mytilene, Naupaktos, Naxos, Nemea
box 185
Neromana, Nikopolis, Oiniadai
box 185, box 186, box 187, box 188, box 189
box 189
Mount Olympos, Olynthos, Orchomenos
box 190
Oropos, Paleokastritsa, Patmos, Pella, Perachora
box 191
Philippi, Phlious, Phyle, Piraeus
box 192
Plataea, Pleuron, Prosymna
box 193
Pyli, Pylos, Pyrasos, Rhamnous
box 196
Salamis, Samos, Samothrace, Sesklo, Sikyon
box 199
Sparta, Sphakteria, Stratos, Taxiarches, Tegea
box 200
Tempe, Tenos, Thasos, Thebes, Thera, Thermopylae, Thermos
box 201
Thessalonike, Thorikos, Tinos
box 202
Tiryns, Troezen, Tylissos, Vari, Vergina
box 203, box 204, box 205
Italy
Scope and Contents
See also Boxes 14-87, the Southern France Project, for sites in northern Italy.
box 207
Abbasante, Acqualagna, Acquarosa, Aenaria
box 207, box 208, box 209, box 210, box 211
box 212
Akrai, Alassio, Alba Fucens, Albano Laziale, Aletrium
box 213
Allifae, Amiternum, Anaenia, Ancona, Anguillara Sabazia, Antium, Aquae Albulae, Aquileia
box 214
Ardea, Aricia, Ariminum, Arpinum, Asculum Picenum, Asisium
box 215
Augusta Praetoria, Augusta Taurinorum, Axia, Bacoli
box 216, box 217, box 218, box 219
box 219
Beneventum, Blera, Bovillae
box 220, box 221, box 222
box 223
Capreae, Capua, Caralis, Carrara, Carsulae, Casinum, Castel Madama, Castelsardo
box 224
Centumcellae, Ciciliano, Circeii, Colonna, Consilinum
box 225, box 226, box 227
box 231
Falerii Novi, Falerii Veteres, Fanum Fortunae, Ferentinum
box 232
Ferentium, Foce del Sele, Formiae
box 233
Francavilla Marittima, Frascati, Fratocchie, Gabii, Gallicano nel Lazio
box 234
Gela, Halaisa, Herakleia Minoa
box 234, box 235, box 236, box 237, box 238, box 239
box 240
Himera, Hispellum, Iguvium, Interamna Nahars, Isili, Katane, Kephaloidion, Krotone
box 241
Laghetto, Lago Lacrinus, Lanuvium, Laurentum, Leontini, Licenza
box 242, box 243, box 244
box 245
Luna, Lupiae, Madonna della Quercia, Marcellina, Manduria, Mansio ad Novas, Mediolanum, Megara Hyblaea
box 246
Metapontion, Mevania, Minturnae, Misenum, Monreale, Mons Albanus, Mons Fereter, Montecelio, Montelibretti
box 250
Nemi, Nettuno, Nola, Nora, Norba
box 252, box 253, box 254, box 255
box 256, box 257, box 258, box 259, box 260, box 261, box 262, box 263, box 264, box 265, box 266, box 267, box 268, box 269, box 270
box 271, box 272, box 273, box 274, box 275, box 276, box 277
box 278
Palumbaria, Perugia, Piazza Armerina
box 279
General views, maps, plans, models
box 280
Aqueducts and water systems
box 282, box 283, box 284, box 285, box 286, box 287, box 288, box 289, box 290
box 291, box 292, box 293
box 293, box 294, box 295, box 296, box 297
box 299, box 300, box 301, box 302
box 303
Miscellaneous buildings
Scope and Contents
Includes the Building of Eumachia, Gladiator's Barracks and Lupanar.
box 308, box 309, box 310
box 315, box 316, box 317
box 317
Pyrgi, Quinto Fiorentino, Ramacca, Ravenna, Rieti
box 318, box 319, box 320, box 321, box 322, box 323, box 324, box 325
General views
Scope and Contents
Includes maps, plans, models, panoramas, modern representations and Aronson aerial photographs.
box 328, box 329, box 330, box 331, box 332
box 326, box 327
Aqueducts and water systems
box 333, box 334, box 335, box 336
box 337, box 338, box 339, box 340
box 344
Comitium, Courtyard, Curia
box 346, box 347, box 348, box 349, box 350, box 351
box 352, box 353, box 354, box 355, box 356, box 357, box 358, box 359, box 360, box 361, box 362, box 363, box 364, box 365, box 366, box 367
box 371, box 372, box 373, box 374, box 375, box 376, box 377, box 378, box 379, box 380, box 381
Houses, palaces and villas
box 385
Shops, Speaker's Platform
box 385
Temples in Forum Holitorium
box 386
Largo Argentina, Mithraeum Domus Clementis, Precinct of Juturna
box 387
Shrine of Janus Geminus, Sanctuary of Vulcan, Shrine of Venus Cloacina, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
box 388
Temple of Apollo, Temple of Apollo Palatinus, Shrine of Bacchus, Temple of Castor and Pollux
box 389
Temple of Claudius, Temple of Concord, Temple of Divine Hadrian, Temple of Divine Julius Caesar, Temple of Divine Romulus
box 390
Temple of Fortuna Virilis, Temple of Jupiter Custos, Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Temple of Jupiter Stator, Temple of
Jupiter Ultor, Temple of Magna Mater
box 392, box 393, box 394, box 395, box 396, box 397, box 398, box 399, box 400
box 401
Temple of Minerva, Temple of Minerva Medica, Temple of Veiovis
box 402
Temple of Saturn, Temple of Trajan
box 405
Temple of Vespasian, Temple of Vesta
box 406
Temple of Vesta (Forum), Unidentified temples
box 407, box 408, box 409
box 411, box 412
Miscellaneous buildings
Scope and Contents
Includes Aedicula of Faustina, Auguratorium, Chalcidium, Ludus Magnus, Nymphaeum of Aqua Julia, Mamertine Prison, Office of
the Scribes, Office of the Stationers, Statio Annonae, Tabularium, Tribunal Praetorium, Tarpeian Rock.
box 415
Rosignano, Rusellae, Sabucina, San Biagio, San Giovenale, San Giuliano, San Gregorio da Sassola, San Martin, Sant'Angelo Romano,
San Vittorino, Sarsina, Satricum
box 417, box 418, box 419
box 420
Signia, Sirmio, Soloeis, Sovana
box 421
Spoletum, Statua, Sublaqueum, Sulmo, Surrentum
box 422, box 423, box 424, box 425
box 426, box 427, box 428
box 431, box 432, box 433, box 434, box 435, box 436
box 439, box 440, box 441
box 444, box 445, box 446
box 447, box 448, box 449, box 450
box 451, box 452, box 453
box 454, box 455, box 456, box 457
Palazzo Imperiale section
box 460, box 461, box 462, box 463, box 464, box 465, box 466, box 467, box 468, box 469, box 470
box 471, box 472, box 473, box 474, box 475, box 476
box 477, box 478, box 479, box 480, box 481, box 482, box 483, box 484
box 491
Tor Paterno, Tragliatella, Tuder
box 492
Turris Libysonis, Tuscana, Tusculum, Tyndaris, Veii
box 495
Vetulonia, Vicovaro, Vicus Matrini, Viterbo, Vitinia
box 499, box 500, box 501
box 502, box 503, box 504, box 505, box 506
box 507, box 508, box 509, box 510, box 511, box 512
box 514, box 515, box 516, box 517, box 518, box 519
box 520, box 521, box 522, box 523, box 524, box 525, box 526, box 527
box 537, box 538, box 539
box 542, box 543, box 544, box 545, box 546, box 547, box 548, box 549, box 550, box 551, box 552, box 553, box 554, box 555, box 556, box 557
box 559
Alexandria ad Issum, Anazarbos, Ancyra
box 560
Antiochea in Pisidia, Antioch on the Orontes
box 561, box 562, box 563
box 569
Caesarea Cappadociae, Cezenne, Colophon, Didyma
box 570
Diocaesarea, Dorylaeum, Dosene, Duzlercami, Elaeussa
box 571, box 572, box 573, box 574, box 575, box 576, box 577, box 578
box 579
Euromos, Gordion, Hadrianopolis, Halikarnassos
box 582
Hieropolis Castabala, Ilion, Isaura Vetus
box 583, box 584, box 585
box 586
Kerti Hoyuk, Korykos, Kyzikos, Labraunda, Laodicea ad Lycum, Larisa
box 587
Letoon, Limyra, Magnesia ad Maeandrum, Magnesia ad Sipylum
box 589
Neandria, Nicaea, Nysa, Olba, Patara
box 590, box 591, box 592, box 593, box 594
box 595, box 596, box 597, box 598
box 599, box 600, box 601
box 603
Seleucia ad Calycadnum, Seleucia Pieria
box 606
Smyrna, Soloi, Stratonikeia, Tarsos
box 608
Tire, Tralles, Tripolis ad Maeandrum, Tyana
box 609, box 610, box 611
box 613, box 614, box 615, box 616, box 617
box 618, box 619, box 620, box 621, box 622
