The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Stucco relief with goat

Art Object

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Stucco relief with goat

Period:: Early Imperial, Augustan
Date:: 1st century A.D.
Culture:: Roman
Medium:: Stucco
Dimensions:: Overall: 5 1/2 x 5 x 1 1/4 in. (14 x 12.7 x 3.2 cm)
Classification:: Miscellaneous
Credit Line:: Fletcher Fund, 1926
Accession Number:: 26.60.85

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 166

Description

This small painted stucco fragment probably comes from a well-appointed house or tomb in Rome. Other larger panels are displayed in the adjacent Roman Imperial Gallery.
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What
Sculpture (24,350)

Reliefs (3,153)

Plaster (842)

Stucco (292)
Where
Roman Empire (5,259)
When
A.D. 1-500 (6,201)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,329)
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Italian Peninsula, 1–500A.D.