The Getty Villa is modeled after the Villa dei Papiri, a Roman country house
in Herculaneum buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

Inner Peristyle

Outer Peristyle

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa is home to one of America's finest

collections of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities.

Herb Garden

This terracotta group consists of a seated Poet as Orpheus with Two Sirens.

Orpheus is depicted entrancing the sirens with his musical skills.

Large sculptures in terracotta are hallmarks of art made in southern Italy.