Enamored

Séan Hemingway

March 6, 2013

2 min. watch

This video is part of 82nd and Fifth, a series that invites curators from across the Museum to talk about an artwork that changed the way they see the world.

“It’s so quiet that you don’t think of it as so radical, but actually it’s very rare and unusual to show a god sleeping.”

Curator Seán Hemingway on an early bronze statue of Eros sleeping.

Contributors

Séan Hemingway
John A. And Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge, Department of Greek and Roman Art

Photography by Juan Trujillo

Drawing of cast sections of the bronze statue of sleeping Eros by Allia Benner.
X-radiograph images courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation