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🆓 Happy FREE Friday! 🆓

Each Friday, we highlight a free book from Getty's Virtual Library! 📚

🌿🌷This week, learn about "Gardens of the Renaissance" from 2013. This vibrantly illustrated text explores gardens on many levels, whether part of a grand villa or an extension of a common kitchen, it highlights how gardens in the Renaissance were planted and treasured in all reaches of society.

From the literary Garden of Love and the biblical Garden of Eden to courtly gardens of the nobility, this book reports on the many activities—both reputable and scandalous—that took place there. 🌿🌷

Learn more here: getty.edu/publications-r…

🌐 From October 19-25, we celebrate Open Access Week, a time committed to promotign free, immediate, and unrestricted access to scholarly research and knowledge 🌐

Today, we are highlighting Getty's Quire title, "The Scores Project: Essays on Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975"! 🎶🎵🎹

This beautifully rendered and boundary pushing publication explores the art of individuals working in and across the fields of visual art, music, poetry, theater, and dance in the mid–twentieth century, who began to use experimental scores in ways that revolutionized artistic practice and opened up new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Read the full text here: getty.edu/publications/s…

📚 Happy School Librarian Day! 📚

Today we celebrate the school librarians who make reading feel like magic!✨

Mark the occasion by reading "The Traveling Camera: Lewis Hine and the Fight to End Child Labor", by school librarian and author Alexandra S. D. Hinrichs! 📖

This marvelously illustrated and poetically written book tell the inspiring story of Lewis Hine (1874–1940), a teacher and photographer who employed his art as a tool for social reform. Working for the National Child Labor Committee, Hine traveled the United States, taking pictures of children as young as five toiling under dangerous conditions in cotton mills, seafood canneries, farms, and coal mines.

Learn more here: shop.getty.edu/products/the-t…

🏺🔎 It's International Archaeology Day! 🏺🔎

Celebrate by reading "The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Mycenaean Greece"!

Ancient Pylos has long captivated travelers, archaeologists, and historians familiar with Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and his account of King Nestor, the prudent elder counselor in the Trojan War. Excavations begun in 1939 unearthed the storied Palace of Nestor in Messenia, an epicenter of Mycenaean civilization.

"The Kingdom of Pylos" features spectacular arts and crafts, many recently excavated at sites across Messenia, including goldwork of unparalleled artistry, masterfully carved sealstones, weapons, and wall paintings.

With over 300 illustrations, this is the first major publication in English to reconstruct the society of Pylos and settlements in its orbit during the Late Bronze Age (1700–1070 BCE).

Learn more here: shop.getty.edu/products/the-k…

🎧 Today is International Podcast Day! 🎧

Whether you're stuck in traffic, cleaning your apartment, or going for a long walk, podcasts are the perfect companion. 🎧📱

Check out the Getty podcast OMMM: Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation, hosted by author of Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum: Movement, Embodiment, Emotion, Lilit Sadoyan!

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