Marble female figure

Marble female figure

Bastis Master

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cycladic sculptors produced several identifiable types of marble female figures but with slight variations. Some groups of figures with similar proportions, style, and execution have been attributed to individual artists. The elongated, highly stylized form of this example’s body is characteristic of the Bastis Master, named for its twentieth-century collector. Like all artists in this period, the sculptor’s real name is unknown.

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.