Terracotta statuette of a standing woman

Terracotta statuette of a standing woman

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Weight on left leg, right foot drawn to side. Enveloping mantle from shoulders to right ankle and left calf. Right arm bent, hand beneath mantle pulls cloth down from neck. Left hand at hip, zigzag drapery falls from arm to hem. Rough melon coiffure, with punched chignon at nape. Plaque base.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.