Part of a bronze box mirror

Part of a bronze box mirror

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This object is half of a box mirror; it would have covered the reflecting surface, with the two parts attached by a hinge. The concentric rings indicate the workmanship applied even to the inside of a luxury object. NOTE - THIS IS PART B ONLY, ADJUST ACC. NO.

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.