Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Painter of London E 80

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Interior, youth with himation draped over left shoulder, leaning on a stick, with his right hand on hip and his left hand over a laver; to the left, a rock; Obverse, sandals in field, two youths at a goal post, the one on the left wears a himation, the one on the right is nude, behind him a youth with himation, whose right arm is extended; he is holding a stick in his right hand; Reverse, sandals in field, youth with himation, leaning on a stick, youth scraping his left forearm with a strigil, aryballos in field, goal post, youth with himation and 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