The Arts of Ancient Greece

Middle Neolithic cup, 5th millennium B.C.

Cycladic harpist, Athens National Museum

Kamares ware jug, Phaistos

Gold pendant, Mallia

Faience “snake goddess,” Knossos

Palace at Knossos

“Triangle Square,” Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini)

“Spring” fresco, Akrotiri

Plaster cast of a bed

“Spring” fresco, Akrotiri

Linear A Linear B

Lion Gate, Mycenae

Gold from the shaft graves, Mycenae

Daggers from the shaft graves, Mycenae

“Nestor’s cup,” shaft grave IV, Mycenae

The “Dipylon jug,” Athens

Geometric funerary krater, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Geometric funerary krater, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Detail, prothesis

Protocorinthian aryballos

New York kouros

Protocorinthian aryballos

New York kouros

Peplos koreNew York kouros

Lekythos, Amasis Painter

Black figure side of Munich 2301

Black figure side of Munich 2301

Red figure side

Black figure side of Munich 2301

The Euphronios krater, formerly in the Metropolitan Museum; returned to Italy in 2008

Temple of Apollo,Corinth

Naxian sphinx, Delphi

Temple of Artemis,Ephesus

Kritios boy

Kritios boy

New York kouros

Kritios boy

Euthydikos kore

White ground lekythos, Achilles Painter

Gold necklace, British Museum

White ground lekythos, Achilles Painter

Gold necklace, British Museum

White ground pyxis, Penthesilea Painter

Glass amphoriskos

Bronze mirror, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Acropolis, Athens

The Parthenon

Temporary Elgin Room, 1819

Three goddesses,

east pediment, Parthenon

Temporary Elgin Room, 1819

Red figure hydria, Meidias Painter

Three goddesses,

east pediment, Parthenon

Aphrodite

Castor and Eriphyle

Red figure hydria, Meidias Painter

Sir William Hamilton

Ivory head, Tomb II, Vergina

Ivory couch from Tomb II, Vergina,

reconstructed

Gold larnax, Tomb II, Vergina

Gold larnax, interior

Fabric from gold larnax, Tomb II, Vergina

Gold diadem, Tomb II, Vergina

Gold necklace, “said to be from Tarentum”

Reconstruction of a Greek house from Priene

House of the Dolphins, Delos

Hellenistic silver looted from Morgantina, Sicily, formerly in the Metropolitan Museum; returned to Italy in 2010

The Etruscans

Gold circlets, Cerveteri

Barberini throne, Praeneste

The Roman World

Augustus, Prima Porta

Ara Pacis, Campus Martius,Rome

Gemma Augustea, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Portland Vase

Pompeii

Pompeiian house

Atrium, House of the Vettii, Pompeii

Chest from the atrium, House of the Vettii,

Pompeii

Peristyle, House of the Vettii

Alexander Mosaic,House of the Faun, Pompeii

Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale.Painted room as installed in the Metropolitan Museum

prior to the opening of the new galleries

Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale.New installation of painted room (2007)

Villa at Boscotrecase,Metropolitan Museum of Art

Silver from the House of Menander, Pompeii

Silver cups from the House of Menander

Bronze pitcher, Naples

Bronze pitcher, Naples Bronze stool, Herculaneum

Bronze folding table,Pompeii

Bronze folding table,Pompeii

Bed from Amiternum, Museo dei Conservatori, Rome

Bronze brazier, Temple of Isis, Pompeii

Bronze brazier, Temple of Isis, Pompeii

Bronze lamp, Pompeii

Necklace, Pompeii

Necklace, Pompeii

Earrings, Pompeii

Necklace, Pompeii

Earrings, Pompeii

Rings, Herculaneum

Gold bracelets and earring, Herculaneum

Rings, Herculaneum

Arch of Titus

The Colosseum

The Pantheon

Canopus, Hadrian’s villa, Tivoli

Green Room,Catherine Palace,

Tsarskoye Selo, 1780

Box depicting the Colosseum, late 18th century

“Pylon of Edfu” from the Dessert Service with

Egyptian Views. Sèvres, 1804-1808

Desk, workshop of Heinrich Gambs, 1794.

Pavlosk Palace

Desk, workshop of Heinrich Gambs, 1794.

Pavlosk Palace

Ionic temple with miniature statue

Souvenir fan with a view of the Pantheon,

ca. 1780

Parian ware bookends,W. T. Copeland and

Sons, 1882