Going from room to room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art I found the exhibit dedicated to Greek art and sculpture. When I got to the room a small group of tourist along with tour guide was given a lecture on Greek history and their work of art. Some interesting remarks by the tour guide attracted my attention and I joined the group as one of the tourists. Moving from exhibit to exhibit tour guide was telling us that Ancient Greeks as a culture took great pride in perfection, excellence and overall greatness. The people were not what today’s society would consider modern, but of their time they were. The Greeks essentially formed the creative world with their intelligence in art, architecture, and astronomy for many cultures to come. The Romans, who basically claimed the Greeks developments as their own, destroyed many of their ideas and art forms. Even though so much of the Greeks culture has be

Art has changed a great deal since it began many centuries ago. Centuries, however, are not necessary to notice the small changes that are evident even between cultures of similar times. Such is the case with the Greeks and Romans. Both cultures had exquisite pieces of art, but they were very different from each other. The amazing thing about art is that no matter how many differences exist, it is still beautiful in its own sense. There are also a number of similarities that are evident with these two cultures as well. Using Greek art form as a guide Romans were able to come up with beautiful statues of their own. One of the beautiful statues of Roman civilization is displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The statue I am talking about is the bronze statue of a boy from the first century A.D. The bronze statue portrays a young boy of a wealthy Roman family. As I quote our tour guide, “The style of the idealizing portrait clearly indicates that the subject wished to be shown in the guise of a prince of the imperial family. While the figure has at times been identified as either Gaius or Lucius Caesar, grandson of the emperor Augustus it is better to regard the statue as belonging to a member of the ruling elite on Rhodes, that’s where the statue was found, possibly set up in his honor by his native city.”

Moving along the museum we came into the section dedicated to infamous Egyptian art. Few of the statues along the way cough our attention and we had to stop and ask our tour guide to give us a small background story on those statues. One of the statues that we stopped by was the Ritual Figure. The figure portrayed a young man wearing red crown of the Lower Egypt and a divine kilt. As our guide went on with the story she mentioned that the figure could be of Amenemhat II or Senwosret II, but the combination of royal and divine attributes suggests that the statue was not merely a representation of the living ruler. The surfaces of the crown and kilt were built up with a layer of plaster before paint was applied. Traces of red, the traditional skin color of male figure, can be seen on the exposed flesh. The contours of the legs, the details of the hands and feet, and delicate modeling of the face set this sculpture apart as one of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art. Another statue that I stopped by and took few minutes to examine was the statue of an Offering Bearer. The slim woman in the statue holds a live duck by its wings in one hand and balances a basket of food with her other. Looking at this graceful figure one can see the difference between a work made in wood and one made

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