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The collection of Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museummore than 35,000 works ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. In 1999, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its renovated New Greek Galleries to the delight of the viewing public. This screen saver draws from the works on display in the collection of the Department of Greek and Roman Art.
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Statuette of a woman, ca. 26002400 B.C.; Early Cycladic II; late Spedos type
Attributed to the Bastis Master
Cycladic
Marble
Gift of Christos G. Bastis, 1968 (68.148)
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Statue of a kouros (youth), ca. 590580 B.C.; Archaic
Greek, Attic
Naxian marble
Fletcher Fund, 1932 (32.11.1)
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Neck-amphora (jar) with lid, ca. 540 B.C.; Archaic; black-figure
Attributed to Exekias
Greek, Attic
Terracotta
Rogers Fund, 1917 (17.230.14a,b); Gift of J. D. Beazley, 1927 (27.16) (17.230.14a,b)
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Amphora (jar), ca. 490 B.C.; Classical; red-figure
Attributed to the Berlin Painter
Greek, Attic
Terracotta
Fletcher Fund, 1956 (56.171.38)
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Sarcophagus, 2nd quarter of the 5th century B.C.; Archaic
Cypriot
Limestone
The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 187476 (74.51.2453)
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Grave stele of a little girl, ca. 450440 B.C.
Greek
Parian marble
Fletcher Fund, 1927 (27.45)
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Diadoumenos, ca. 6996 A.D.
Roman (Flavian)
Copy after a Greek original of ca. 430 B.C.
Marble
Fletcher Fund, 1925 (25.78.56)
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Portrait head of the Emperor Augustus, ca. A.D. 1437; Tiberian
Roman
Marble
Rogers Fund, 1907 (07.286.115)
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Statue of a boy, late 1st century B.C.early 1st century A.D.; Augustan
Roman
Bronze
Rogers Fund, 1914 (14.130.1)
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Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, ca. 4030 B.C.; Republican; Second Style
Roman
Fresco
Rogers Fund, 1903 (03.14.13ag)
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Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons sarcophagus, ca. A.D. 260270; Gallienic
Roman
Phrygian marble
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955 (55.11.5)
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