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This new edition of the handbook will include many new works acquired since the original volume appeared. The handbook presents highlights of the Museum's seven areas of collection--antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, and sculpture and works of art--inan attractive and accessible format. It is a pertinent guide for museum visitors and persons interested in a survey of the Getty Museum's holdings. The first edition of this guide won numerous awards, including the Art Museum Associaton of America's annual publication design competition and theAmerican Association of Museum's award of distinction.

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, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths' work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions--among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld--it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.