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Holy Week: A Visit to the Getty Museum

Wednesday, March 27, 1:30 pm

Photo pictured: Cracked paint is flaking off the surface of Lucas Cranach’s life-size panel “Eve,” circa 1530.

(Cassia Davis) as written in the Los Angeles Times…

After 2½ years of rigorous, sometimes hair-raising effort, the conservation studio at the J. Paul Getty Museum has completed work on one of the key treasures of European art in Los Angeles. Lucas Cranach the Elder’s pair of panel paintings, “Adam” and “Eve” (circa 1530) at the Norton Simon Museum, beautifully restored, go on view Tuesday at the Getty in a special three-month exhibition, before returning to the duo’s permanent home in Pasadena. This German Renaissance masterpiece is one of those great have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too images. Cranach (1472-1553), a pal of Martin Luther, was a signature artist of the Protestant Reformation — a court painter of the Elector of Saxony, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Adam and Eve’s cautionary tale of humanity’s fall from grace in the Garden of Eden could provide a patron with the public veneer of biblical piety. At the same time — and ideal for an artist whose capacities for sophisticated decorative design were unmatched among German artists in his day — those two life-size naked bodies offered something more…

Join us at the Getty Museum as spiritual director and art docent, Kim Allen-Niesen guides us to consider reflecting on a newly completed project at the Getty. Enjoy this experience of being led for reflection as you venture through Holy Week. Enjoy other galleries and look for images that encourage you towards Easter.

Program Cost: $25

Spaces are limited. Details will be sent to registrants and materials provided for our afternoon.

Admission to the Getty is free. There is a cost for parking.