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.

2024年5月1日 · The term Scythians refers to a wide variety of mostly nomadic Iranic tribes that inhabited the Eurasian steppe in antiquity. These tribes, which the Greeks would later refer to as Scythians (Skuthoi in Greek), migrated from Central Asia in the late eighth century BCE to modern-day Ukraine and southern Russia.By no means unified politically, these tribes of pastoral horsemen roamed their vast ...

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.

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...

Roman lifestyle, architectural achievements, and propagandistic endeavors influence art and architecture across the peninsula. As Roman dominion weakens, these territories are vulnerable to a series of attacks by the Goths, a Germanic people from southern Scandinavia.

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.

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 ...

2017年3月1日 · Art History 25, no. 5 (2002), pp. 571–604. Marconi, Clemente. Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World: The Metopes of Selinus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Milne, Marjorie J. “Perseus and Medusa on an Attic Vase.” Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 4, no. 5 (1946), pp. 126–30. Richter ...

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,...

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...