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Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue of Greek sculptures

By Gisela Richter

Book information

Publisher
Published for the Museum by Harvard University Press
Year
1954
ASIN
B007T03D1M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
35 MB (36836673 bytes)
Pages
303\303
Topic
History Archaeology
Time added
2013-05-05 13:39:48

Description

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than seventeen 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: much of Asia Minor on the periphery of Greece was settled by Greeks;

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