Two years ago, when I last visited the Getty, I posted about the…
Two years ago, when I last visited the Getty, I posted about the pair of paintings by Claude-Joseph Vernet, A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast (1767), and A Calm at a Mediterranean Port (1770). I loved how they were posted near each other, so you could compare the two and see how Vernet created parallel elements in each picture, but I was bummed that they were mounted so high on the wall:
I wrote at the time:
I wish the two paintings had been displayed lower on the wall at the Getty, so I could have gotten closer to them. The Getty website makes it easy to zoom in and see more detail, which is great, but it doesn’t have the same emotional impact as standing in front of the original.
When I went back today I saw that the two pictures had been moved, and are now mounted at eye level. Yay! The Getty is a wish-granting factory!
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Tags: claude-joseph vernet, the getty.
