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Join us as we tour highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts superb collection of Greek and Roman Art.

In April 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art completed a 15 year project for the complete redesign and reinstallation of the Museum’s superb collection of classical art. These galleries form a spectacular “museum-within-the-museum” for the display of the MET’s extraordinary collection of Hellenistic, Etruscan, South Italian and Roman art. Much of this collection has been unseen for generations as some 5,300 works previously in storage, many of them collected in the earliest years after the Museum’s founding in 1870, have been returned to public view. Works of art in the collection range in date from the Neolithic period to the transfer of the capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople in AD 330.

Today, the more than 35,000 objects in the collection range from over-life-size statues to small engraved gemstones and include virtually all of the materials in which ancient artists and craftsmen worked: marble, limestone, terracotta, bronze, gold and silver, glass as well as the rarer substances such as ivory and bone, iron, lead amber and wood. The strengths of the collection include Cypriot sculpture, painted Greek vases, marble and bronze Roman portrait busts, and paintings from two villas on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius. The holdings in glass and silver are among the finest in the world, and the collection of archaic Attic sculpture is second only to that in Athens.
Andree Caldwell, who has been lecturing at the Metropolitan for over 25 years, will once again lead our tour. She holds two masters degrees in Fine Arts.

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Location: Metropolitan Museum, 1000 Fifth Ave. (82nd Street), New York. Enter through the museum’s main entrance and check in at the Group Registration Desk located in the Great Hall.
Time: 1:45 Meet at Group Registration Desk in Main Hall; 2:00 Tour begins
Cost: $25/Members; $35/Nonmembers & Guests
Organizer: Elena Crespo ’93

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