Limestone statue of a male votary wearing a wreath and long tunic

Limestone statue of a male votary wearing a wreath and long tunic

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

His feet are missing, but it is clear that his left leg is advanced forward. He stands draped in a tunic with shallow vertical folds. It stretches tightly around his body, arms and legs. Over the tunic is what appears to be an outer tunic that falls to the waist. There are red bands near the border of the neckline.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Limestone statue of a male votary wearing a wreath and long tunicLimestone statue of a male votary wearing a wreath and long tunicLimestone statue of a male votary wearing a wreath and long tunicLimestone statue of a male votary wearing a wreath and long tunicLimestone statue of a male votary wearing a wreath and long tunic

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.