Symposium—Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms: From Pergamon to Rome, Day 2, Afternoon Session

Hellenistic Decorative Arts II: Lectures, "Early Portraits of Alexander the Great: The Numismatic Evidence," Ute Wartenberg Kagan, Executive Director, American Numismatic Society

Hellenistic Decorative Arts II

Lectures:
"Early Portraits of Alexander the Great: The Numismatic Evidence"
Ute Wartenberg Kagan, Executive Director, American Numismatic Society

"All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Hellenistic Glass"
Christopher S. Lightfoot, Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met

"Precious Gems and Poetry in the Hellenistic Royal Courts"
Jeffrey Spier, Senior Curator, Antiquities Department, J. Paul Getty Museum

"Faience in the Hellenistic World"
Marsha Hill, Curator, Department of Egyptian Art, The Met

"Pergamene Pottery: At Home and Abroad"
Susan I. Rotroff, Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita, Washington University in Saint Louis

"Transformations in Hellenistic Greek Pottery"
Joan R. Mertens, Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, on view April 18–July 17, 2016.

Recorded May 5, 2016


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