Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts

There is always the fear that when works of art (or other collectible items vital to scholarship) go into private collections access to them may become difficult, or perhaps impossible. But at the other end of the scale there are the likes of the Getty Museum where a massive collecting activity has led to a collection of world renown in the amazingly short period of the last 15 years, but where as much effort is being put into allowing public access to the collection as to its original acquisition: this is all a testimony to the power of Getty’s money,...