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Roman Copies of Greek Statues

October 1, 2002

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

Although many Roman sculptures are purely Roman in their conception, others are carefully measured, exact copies of Greek statues, or variants of Greek prototypes adapted to the taste of the Roman patron.

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Retrospective Styles in Greek and Roman Sculpture

July 1, 2007

By Colette Hemingway

From at least the fifth century B.C. on, Greek artists deliberately represented certain works of art in the style of previous generations in order to differentiate them from other works in contemporary style.

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Greek and Roman Art

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Friends of Greek and Roman Art: Philodoroi

The Philodoroi is designed to bring collectors, devotees, and others who are passionate about classical and ancient art into closer contact with the collection.

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Mystery Cults in the Greek and Roman World

October 1, 2013

By Kiki Karoglou

A pendant to the official cults of the Greeks and Romans, mystery cults served more personal, individualistic attitudes toward death and the afterlife.

Publication

"The Department of Greek and Roman Art: Triumphs and Tribulations"

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Greek Art in the Archaic Period

October 1, 2003

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

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.

Publication

A Greek and Roman Treasury

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Ancient Greek Colonization and Trade and their Influence on Greek Art

July 1, 2007

By Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway

The ancient Greeks were active seafarers seeking opportunities for trade and founding new independent cities at coastal sites across the Mediterranean Sea.

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Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus

October 1, 2004

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

The wealth of its natural resources and its strategic position on the principal maritime route linking Greece and the Aegean with the Levant and Egypt made Cyprus a major prize for the warring Hellenistic rulers.

Art

Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace)

Roman copy of Greek original by Kephisodotos

Date: ca. 14–68 CE
Accession Number: 06.311

Greek and Roman Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than 17,000 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.

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Terracotta female head

Date: 2nd century CE
Accession Number: 74.51.1513

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Friends of Greek and Roman Art: Philodoroi

The Philodoroi is designed to bring collectors, devotees, and others who are passionate about classical and ancient art into closer contact with the Museum's collection and curators of the Department of Greek and Roman Art.

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Marble head of a Greek general

Date: 1st–2nd century CE
Accession Number: 24.97.32

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The Onassis Library for Hellenic and Roman Art in the Department of Greek and Roman Art Opens at Metropolitan Museum

(October 25, 2000) The Metropolitan Museum of Art today announced the opening of the Onassis Library for Hellenic and Roman Art in the Museum's Department of Greek and Roman. Scholars utilizing the Onassis Library will for the first time have access to the Met's rich and diverse collection of publications and its extensive historical archive of Greek and Roman art. In addition, because the library's resources are now available online, this extraordinary collection can be accessed by scholars, libraries, and databases worldwide.

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Greek and Roman Art

History of the Department

Although the Department of Greek and Roman Art (originally the Department of Classical Art) was not formally established until 1909, the art of ancient Greece and Rome has figured prominently in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the time of its founding in 1870. The very first object to enter the Museum's collection was an impressive Roman sarcophagus that occupies a prominent place today in the New Greek and Roman Galleries that opened in April 2007. Among the largest groups of works to enter the fledgling institution after this inaugural acquisition were the several thousand Cypriot antiquities purchased by subscription (in two installments, 1874 and 1876) from General Luigi Palma di Cesnola, who subsequently served as the Metropolitan's first director, from 1879 to 1904. Four rooms devoted to Cypriot art are located on the second floor of the Museum, and many other pieces from the collection are displayed throughout the Greek and Roman galleries.

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Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")

Restored by Pacetti, Vincenzo

Date: 27 BCE–68 CE
Accession Number: 1990.247

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Metropolitan Museum to Unveil Spectacular New Greek and Roman Galleries

A spectacular "museum-within-the-museum" for the display of its extraordinary collection of Hellenistic, Etruscan, South Italian, and Roman art – much of it unseen in New York for generations – will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this April in its New Greek and Roman Galleries. After more than five years of construction, the long-awaited opening concludes a 15-year project for the complete redesign and reinstallation of the Museum's superb collection of classical art. Returning to public view in the new space are thousands of long-stored works from the Metropolitan's collection, which is considered one of the finest in the world. The centerpiece of the New Greek and Roman Galleries is the majestic Leon Levy and Shelby White Court – a monumental, peristyle court for the display of Hellenistic and Roman art, with a soaring two-story atrium.

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Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Date: 1st–2nd century CE
Accession Number: 17.190.2076