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October 11, 2005
What I saw at the Met
Here's a page of some of the Met's black and red figure vases. In the reinstalled Greek rooms (the Hellenistic and Roman rooms are still being rebuilt and don't open until sometime in 2006, I think) there is now more emphasis on metalwork, but pride of place still goes to their pottery. There's no question that the painters of the 6th and 5th centuries were amazing draftsmen (GOSH I love Exekias), but it is increasingly clear that the potters and painters were producing middle-class table ware in imitation of things like this bronze water jug. It's useful that the Met is now showing more of their excellent collection of metalwork, and helpful that they're making more explicit references in the wall text to the relationships between the two.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at October 11, 2005 12:12 PM