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Getty museum closes to relocate
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LOS ANGELES The world's wealthiest museum, the J. Paul Getty,
overlooking the Pacific in Malibu and built by the billionaire
oilman, closed temporarily Sunday, ending a chapter in the history of
art collections.
The Getty, built to resemble the Roman Villa dei Papiri at
Herculaneum, will reopen in four years as a museum solely for Greek
and Roman art and archeology.
Its collection of drawings, manuscripts and some of the world's
most expensive European paintings - including ...
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A salon for Virgil. (Herculaneum)
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; Herculaneum A salon for Virgil HAVING drilled down through 88 feet of solid lava rock, some four miles east of Naples, in 1752, diggers brought to the surface what was to be the first of about 2,000 carbonised papyrus rolls. The trove was part of the library of an unknown great house that came to
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