Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

Orchard Painter

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tondo, maenad sitting on a rock, holding a thyrsos in her left hand, facing a satyr; figural band around tondo: maenad with sakkos and peplos, holding a thrysos in her right hand and a kantharos in her left; legs and arms of a satyr playing the aulos; lower leg and foot; maenad with peplos, holding a snake in her right hand and kantharos with fillet in her left, satyr with thrysos in left hand facing a maenad holding a torch in her left hand; Obverse, handle palmette, lower legs and body of a draped figure leaning on stick facing the lower legs and body of another draped figure; draped figure with stick facing another; Reverse, handle palmette, feet to right; lower drapery and feet of figure; part of a staff or stick?

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