The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
perfume bottle) Greek, Eastern Mediterranean 1st century BCE Glass garland bowl Roman
Egyptian Art European Paintings European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Greek and Roman
From a hypogeum (so-called “tomb B�) on the property of Savino Scocchera in Mandorleto Grotticelle, east of Canosa, Italy 1895, found in a tomb near Canosa, Apulia, Italy; [by 1904 and until 1906, with Cesare and Ercole Canessa, Naples and Paris]; acquired in 1906, purchased from C
Egyptian Art European Paintings European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Greek and Roman
This study collection of more than 16,000 fragments of Greek vases has been digitized and is accessible on The Met’s website.
vases assembled by Dietrich von Bothmer, former head of the Department of Greek and Roman
Egyptian Art European Paintings European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Greek and Roman
From “the collection of the late Mr. George Baldwin, many years Counsul in Aegypt� (Society of Dilettanti 1835, vol. 2, pl. XXXIX) Between 1786-1796, acquired in Egypt by George Baldwin (1744-1826), British consul general; until 1826, collection of George Baldwin, London; May 9, 1828, sold at the posthumous sale of George Baldwin Collection through Mr
Egyptian Art European Paintings European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Greek and Roman
A vast network of strategically located trading posts (emporia) enabled the exchange, distribution, and storage of goods.
a great expansion of international trade involving five contiguous powers: the Roman
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
centaur and Lapith Greek 3rd–2nd century BCE Marble head and torso of Athena Roman
As early as the first century A.D., the Roman author Pliny the Elder acknowledged
As early as the first century A.D., the Roman author Pliny the Elder acknowledged
By the late nineteenth century, the concept of “the vanishing West” drove many sculptors to record their perceptions of western life.
Warner John Williams 1889; cast 1906 The Broncho Buster Frederic Remington Roman
