Terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Kleophrades Painter

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Obverse and reverse, two warriors arming As on the adjacent neck-amphora, the Kleophrades Painter here focuses his art on his human subjects and allows the larger narrative context of military activity to be supplied by their equipment. The emphasis is on grandeur, evident despite the object's fragmentary state. The four warriors, standing in relaxed poses, hold their weapons in a way that permits the artist to lavish exquisite detail on every form.

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