Marble fragment of a hero relief

Marble fragment of a hero relief

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inscribed on the molding above the relief, KALLO... A woman holds out a wreath whose painted leaves and flowers are no longer preserved to another figure of whom only the right hand survives. In the background are traces of a small figure and a horse's head and neck. The figure receiving the wreath, a hero, reclined on a couch, while the female figure sat on or near its foot.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.