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Title: Greek and Roman art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Post by: Victoria Liss on November 17, 2010, 01:28:31 pm
The Met's collection of Greek and Roman art contains more than 35,000[27] works dated through A.D. 312. The Greek and Roman collection dates back to the founding of the museum—in fact, the museum's first accessioned object was a Roman sarcophagus, still currently on display. Though the collection naturally concentrates on items from ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, these historical regions represent a wide range of cultures and artistic styles, from classic Greek black-figure and red-figure vases to carved Roman tunic pins. Several highlights of the collection include the Euphronios krater depicting the death of Sarpedon (whose ownership has since been transferred to the Republic of Italy), the monumental Amathus sarcophagus, and a magnificently detailed Etruscan chariot known as the "Monteleone chariot". The collection also contains many pieces from far earlier than the Greek or Roman empires—among the most remarkable are a collection of early Cycladic sculptures from the mid-third millennium BCE, many so abstract as to seem almost modern. The Greek and Roman galleries also contain several large classical wall paintings and reliefs from different periods, including an entire reconstructed bedroom from a noble villa in Boscoreale, excavated after its entombment by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79. In 2007, the Met's Greek and Roman galleries were expanded to approximately 60,000 square feet (6,000 m2), allowing the majority of the collection to be on permanent display.[28]



Title: Re: Greek and Roman art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Post by: Victoria Liss on November 17, 2010, 01:29:01 pm
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Title: Re: Greek and Roman art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Post by: Victoria Liss on November 17, 2010, 01:29:52 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Photograph_of_the_New_Roman_Gallery_at_the_Metropolitan%E2%80%94New_York_City.jpg/800px-Photograph_of_the_New_Roman_Gallery_at_the_Metropolitan%E2%80%94New_York_City.jpg)

Greek and Roman gallery


Title: Re: Greek and Roman art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Post by: Victoria Liss on November 17, 2010, 01:30:37 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/The_5th_century_BC_Amathus_sarcophagus.jpg/800px-The_5th_century_BC_Amathus_sarcophagus.jpg)


The Amathus sarcophagus, from Amathus, Cyprus, arguably the single most important object in the Cesnola Collection