Greek and Roman Art | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America.
Greek and Roman Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2010年10月19日 · History of the Department Although the Department of Greek and Roman Art (originally the Department of Classical Art) was not formally established until 1909, the art of ancient Greece and Rome has figured prominently in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the time of its founding in 1870. The very first object to enter the Museum's collection was an impressive Roman sarcophagus that occupies ...
The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480–323 B.C.)
Inside the magnificent Doric temple stood the colossal gold-and-ivory statue of Athena made by the Greek sculptor Pheidias. The building itself was constructed entirely of marble and richly embellished with sculpture, some of the finest examples of the high Classical style of …
Old-Time Modernity: Cycladic Art at the Met - The New York Times
2024年2月1日 · New York City has added another jewel to its glittering cultural crown, and it takes up little more than one medium-size wall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You’ll find the wall in the...
Greek and Roman Art Collection · Metropolitan Museum of Art …
The Greek and Roman galleries at the Met rival the greatest collections of art from the Ancient World anywhere on earth. Works two, three or even six thousand years old are among the oldest in the museum.
Greek and Roman galleries - Met Museum - Art - The New York Times
2007年4月20日 · If you want to know why Greek and Roman art matters eternally, she’s your answer. The new Greek and Roman galleries open today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (212) 535-7710,...
"Chroma", at the Met Paints Greek Marble With Ancient Color
2022年7月25日 · See for yourself at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition “Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color,” for which 17 painted recreations of ancient sculptures have been installed in the ...
Greek Art in the Archaic Period | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum …
Greek artists rapidly assimilated foreign styles and motifs into new portrayals of their own myths and customs, thereby forging the foundations of Archaic and Classical Greek art. The Greek world of the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. consisted of numerous autonomous city-states, or poleis, separated one from the other by mountains and the sea.
Greek statues, now in their original colors : NPR
2022年7月12日 · A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York scatters recreations of what these statues ACTUALLY looked like throughout its galleries: they're painted in garish colors with...
Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York CONTRIBUTORS . 9 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The exhibition “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World” on view at The Met in 2016 was the first major …