and supports to inform art historical interpretations

So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy

Lavishly illustrated with comparative paintings by artists such as Watteau

from Roman annexation to the Arab conquest

Vincenzo Pacetti

Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum SPE23 and supports to inform artGillian Wilson and Catherine Hess J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, who was curator of decorative arts since 1971, broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Getty Museum continued to enlarge its