Slideshow: Students Tour Getty Center

This past weekend some 30 Thomas Aquinas College students enjoyed an educational tour of one of Los Angeles’ finest art museums, thanks to the generosity of College Governor Maria O. Grant.

During Saturday’s visit to the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the group viewed works of sacred art, medieval paintings, and bronze sculptures, among other collections. The tour was one of two such outings arranged and sponsored by Mrs. Grant, who is a Museum Educator at the Norton Simon Museum and previously served as an Overseer at the Huntington Library in San Marino. In February the group will visit the Norton Simon in Pasadena, with Mrs. Grant leading the tour.

The tours, which focus on art that bears a connection to the literary works students read in the College’s classical curriculum, have become a beloved annual occurrence. Mrs. Grant first began leading them in 2010 in order to supplement the College’s curriculum and because, as she put it, “We have access to some of the best museums in the world.”