Many of the greatest artists from the 15th through the 18th centuries designed three-dimensional objects. Made for Manufacture: Drawings for Sculpture and the Decorative Arts, through May 20, 2007 at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, showcases the detailed drawings they made to guide the craftsmen who translated their two-dimensional ideas into three-dimensional objects.

Beginning January the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center will play host to a special loaned painting from the Mauritshuis in the Netherlands. Hans Holbein the Younger's Portrait of Robert Cheseman (1485-1547) will be on view in the Museum's North Pavilion paintings galleries alongside the Getty's An Allegory of Passion, which was recently reattributed to Holbein, and a work by Lucas Cranach the Elder, A Faun and His Family with a Slain Lion that the Getty acquired in 2003.

Throughout the Middle Ages, manuscript illumination was a major art form in France, a favorite of French kings and high-ranking nobles. This exhibition of 25 manuscripts and leaves from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection, including recent acquisitions, highlights the achievement of French painting in books from the 800s to the 1500s.

A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Through August 5, 2007

This exhibition traces the study of one Getty object to determine its date and place of manufacture. The cabinet, acquired in 1971, has since the 1980s been believed to be a pastiche if not an outright fake.

Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, one of the great masterpieces of 19th-century French art, is coming to the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center this summer. To celebrate this loan from the Samuel Courtauld Trust, Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery in London, the Getty Museum has organized the special installation Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère- to showcase the painting and its visual complexities.