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| Emperor Constantine I |
This is the first blog post done in real time. We made it down to New York for another three-day weekend, and spent the first part of the day with Theo at the Whitney Museum, which we hadn't seen in many years. We rested up over a wonderful late lunch at the nearby vegan restaurant, Gobo. Then Bev and I walked to the Met, for the first time benefiting from their Saturday evening hours.
I had taken a book out of the library on Greek vases, so I started by
reviewing some of these vases. We resumed our tour of the Roman
galleries and saw the sculpture gallery behind the main courtyard,
highlighted by monumental statues of various emperors.
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| Cypriot figures |
For some reason the other Roman galleries were closed, so we saw the
final section in the Greek-Roman area: Cypriot art. This culture showed a
curious mixture of Mideast (Assyrian and Persian) and Greek-Roman
influences. The cultural influences followed somewhat loosely which
empire actually controlled the island. The galleries are part of the
Greek-Roman department, but are located adjacent to the Mideast section,
and we may have gone through them along with those galleries as well.
We then returned to the Asiatic wing and saw the Korean room, followed
by an impressive special exhibit of art from the ancient Korean kingdom
of Silla.
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