Greek and Roman Art
A vast collection of art from ancient Greece, Cyprus, Italy, and the Roman world — from Neolithic figurines to late Roman sculpture and mosaics.
The bedrock the West keeps returning to.
or two and a half thousand years, Europe and its offshoots have circled back to the art of Greece and Rome to borrow authority and to define beauty — its idealized bodies, its temples, its myths. This is the source they kept reaching for.
Look past the white marble to the painted pottery, where named masters like Makron and Douris drew athletes, gods, and drinkers with astonishing life. Antiquity was never as cold, or as pale, as its later admirers imagined.
