Terracotta pelike (jar)

Mannerists

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Komos (revel). Obverse, flute-player and youth with skyphos Reverse, two youths The young men are the same Athenian citizens who participated in the Panathenaic games. For an understanding of Attic vases, it is important to recognize that the shapes, their functions, and their decoration had a well-defined place in Athenian life. As a result, they are also our most informative visual source on the details of Athenian life.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand 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. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art