Six engravings and one map

Six engravings and one map

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

1. "Veduta degli Avanzi della Camere sepolorali de' Liberti, e Servi della Famiglia di Augusto" 2. "Ruines d'un Temple a Euromus" 3. "Tombeau pres de Mylasa" 4. "Vue d'un Theatre de Telmissus" 5. "Elevation d'un Temple dedie a Jupiter Serapis a Pauzzol de Naples" 6. "Vue de Temple de Minerve-Sunlade" 7. Map of Greece, 1720

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.