Roman Antiquities at the Metropolitan Museum, New York

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Roman Art.

The Roman gallery at the Metropolitan Museum reveals classical art in all of its complexity and resonance.

The objects range from small, engraved gem stones to black-figure and red-figure painted vases to over-life-size statues and reflect virtually all of the materials in which ancient artists and craftsmen worked:

marble
limestone
terracotta
bronze
gold
silver, and
glass

-- as well as such rarer substances as ivory and bone, iron, lead, amber, and wood.