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Classical Art at the Met
The large octagon at the center of the Lod Mosaic contains:
A Tiger (lower left of the octagon)
An Elephant (center right of the octagon)
A Giraffe (backing nervously away from the elephant)
OBJECT # 1 ROOM 150
ACCESSION NUMBER 1997.145.1
TITLE Bronze Rod Tripod Stand
MEDIUM Bronze
CULTURE Greek
DATE Early 6th Century BCE
The sculpted figures on the top of the tripod are uncanny -- they alternate abstract horse's heads which might have come from a sleek twentieth-century chess set, rearing high, alongside strange, much shorter sphinxes with disproportionately huge heads, seemingly braided hair, and giant bug eyes. The facial features look robotic and abstracted, the bodies of the sphinxes are recognizably leonine but remarkably small with features not clearly defined. As representational art it is abstract in a way that I'm much more accustomed to from early 20th century primitivism -- the Picasso...
This piece stands about two and a half feet high -- the bronze is heavily patinaed so the work appears green in color. The strange modernism of the ornamental figures on the top is weirdly offset by the ornamental fleurs-de-lis or rosette looking designs that hang from the arches of the tripod's three legs: the legs at the base end in claw feet like a Victorian bathtub.
OBJECT 2 ROOM 151
ACCESSION NUMBER 17.190.2072
TITLE Statuette of a Man and a centaur
MEDIUM Bronze
CULTURE Late Geometric Greek
DATE approx 750 BCE
COMMENTARY
This rather futuristic-looking piece of mini-statuary is actually from the eighth century BCE. It seems typical of the geometric art on view in the initial three galleries here (Rooms 150-152, aka the Robert and Renee Belfer Court of the Metropolitan Museum of Art). The figures depicted seem manneristically distorted: they wear strangely ornamental hats, and their bodies look gangly with…
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