Getty Museum Handbook

Page 84 of The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections, detail of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marquis of Vasto, in Armor with a Page by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio). #goliwaliwph #october2018 #pages #inmemoriam #emersonmiranda pic.twitter.com/89lW2aDDwb

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This month, liwaliw Pages shares space with books selected from my personal library's "pride of place," namely those I received as gifts (or pasalubong) from my BFF Emerson Miranda, who was born on July 13, 1984, and passed away only last September 28, 2018. He was 34 years old.

Page 84 of the J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections has a full-page detail of "Alfonso d'Avalos, Marquis of Vasto, in Armor with a Page" by Titian (or Tiziano Vecellio), marking the beginning of the handbook's chapter "Paintings." Even as Getty (the person) considered himself primarily a collector of decorative arts, he also bought paintings that represented major art movements in Europe between the 14th and 20th centuries. This portrait of the Marquis who served as commander general to Emperor Charles V is one of the earliest works in the Museum's paintings collection, 1533 according to Italian Renaissance artist, writer and historian Giorgio Vasari.

(Van Gogh's "Irises," one of Getty Museum's most popular, was BFF Eon's all-time favorite; brought him to tears the first time he saw and marveled at it.)

Coincidentally, the month of October is also Museums and Galleries Month, pursuant to Proclamation No. 798, series of 1991, "in recognition of the need to arouse the national consciousness pride in our rich culture and national identity, expressed in all media of art and culture, historical and religious artifacts," according to the National Commission on Culture and the Arts.


[This post is antedated: 20181022]