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Today, pictures from valued commenter ?BillinGlendaleCA.
The Getty Villa
J. Paul Getty was one of the richest men in the world in the 60’s and 70’s(he died in 1976), making his fortune in oil. He had a ranch house along the Pacific coast at the border of Malibu and Pacific Palisades that over looked the Pacific Ocean. He had amassed quite a large art collection so he opened a gallery adjacent to his home in 1954. This gallery began to run out of space so he commissioned a new museum modeled after the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. This new museum opened in 1974(Getty never visited it since his primary residence was in England). It was a pretty big draw when I was in high school, but I never visited. After Getty’s death, his will created the J. Paul Getty Trust with an initial endowment of $600 from his estate. The Villa, though it had just opened was already running out of space; so they planned and eventually built a new museum complex in the west LA community of Brentwood(it took about 20 years due to NIMBY). With the new complex in place the entire collection was moved there and the Villa was remodeled to provided for a home for the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities as well as additional parking, an amphitheater(which also serves as the museum entrance), and seismic reinforcement. The Villa was reopened it 2006. We’ve been planning a trip to the Villa with a friend, but complications in schedules made it difficult; so I decided to try to get there myself via rail/bus. The journey took a while but was pretty easy to get there.
There are no fisheye pics here because I didn’t get the fisheye lens until later in the months; this trip probably encouraged me to get it.
View from the southern edge of the outer peristyle.
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
The Villa has two paristyles, one is the inner peristyle to the north which is surrounded by the museum galleries and the outer peristyle(towards the ocean) which is south of the main museum building. The outer peristyle surrounds formal gardens with a long pool(we still had water restrictions due to the drought so there was no water in the pool).
Outer peristyle in infrared.
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
Pretty much the same view as above but taken with my near infrared camera.
Outer peristyle from the second floor of the museum.
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
If you look close you can see the Pacific ocean above the trees at the right and center right.
Same view as above but in infrared.
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
This is an infrared view of the previous photo. I’ve added some red to the roof to give it a more realistic feel. As I was writing this up, the original photo looked really bad, the red was badly drawn in; my Photoshop skills have improved a bit since I did the initial conversion, so I redid the roof color.
Tile mosaic.
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
This was a floor mosaic from a Roman home.
Hail Caesar!
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
Bust of Emperor Augustus.
Thank you so much ?BillinGlendaleCA, do send us more when you can.
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Baud
It’s good to be rich.
raven
I like them both but the Malibu Getty is really cool!
Mary G
That’s probably my favorite LA museum. The courtyard is serene and the collection is homogeneous and less “I went to Sotheby’s and bought the five most expensive things on sale, because I am so rich, regardless of whether they go together or not” feeling I get at Hearst Castle and the main Getty museum. This is smaller and more intimate and really well curated and presented. Thanks again, Bill. The pictures are beautiful. (You’re going to have to go back with the fisheye lens when you have a chance. ?)
I imagine the journey from Glendale to Malibu did take some time and transfers!
Mary G
@Mary G: If you embiggen the photo of the bust of Augustus, the writer of the description throws some primo shade at the first Emperor.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Ain’t it?
@OP: I updated the fourth picture(the IR from the second floor) after I submitted the post.
rikyrah
I had heard about the Getty estate. Thanks for the great pictures, Bill?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: It’s architecturally suited to it’s collection and has a nice view of the Pacific, but the Getty Center has a more diverse collection and offers one of the best views of UCLA.
@Mary G: Thanks. The trip went like this: Metrolink from Glendale to Union Station, Red Line to 7th street, Expo Line to Santa Monica and Bus to the Villa. On the other hand, the whole trip cost $5(Metrolink fare) since the Metrolink ticket is also a Tap card for the day.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Heh, there are several Getty Estates. He was really rich.
?BillinGlendaleCA
OT: I just spent the last 4 days trying to get my Hackintosh disk to work in my backup machine. I just put in the new video card that I ordered and it came right up. Now I just have to get the Windows & Linux installations to boot up too.
raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’ve been to both.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: I kind of gathered that, I was being somewhat snarky about the view of UCLA(though the view is quite good).
Mary G
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That’s a real good deal, because admission is free but parking is $15! Plus gas, which isn’t much in your Prius, but still not nothing.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: And the drive, the choice is between the 101/405 and the 110/10. Though it does take a while and I spent some time in Santa Monica(there are worse places) waiting for the bus. Also the Expo line getting out of downtown is REALLY SLOW, since they stop at lights at cross streets.
satby
All great pictures, lovung the infrared ones a lot. And the addition of people in the one shot gives it an otherworldly vibe.
MomSense
The infrared photos look like a movie set. Very cool.
Elizabelle
Great pics.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle:
@satby: Thanks. I’m guessing you mean the third photo.
ETA: Oh, you mean the second shot, the IR one. IR does some interesting things to people. For example you can see though sunglasses and see if they dye their hair.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: I hope you looked at the improved shot I linked to in my first comment.
hueyplong
In downtown LA today, flying back to NC on a redeye tonight.
Went to the USC-Texas game Saturday via Metro and was surprised that we stopped at street lights on the Expo line. Many things about LA surprise me because I don’t know much about the city (though I guess I knew enough to take the Metro).
MomSense
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Oh wow. I don’t know why but I’m picturing a Tarantino movie scene. Very nice, photo.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I did mean the second shot. They look like people from another planet.
Major Major Major Major
Man, you sure make SoCal look worth visiting.