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My New York Trip Day #7: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Again)
Today I decided to go back to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and see everything I didn’t see the first day that I still wanted to see. Which was mainly (of course) the Egyptian exhibit.
The Egyptian exhibit, for those of you that hven’t been there, is massive. It’s truly enormous and the thing is that there’s so much stuff packed into it. In the Roman and Greek exhibits at least most stuff is spread out but in the Egyptian one there’s stuff crammed into every single corner. There are study galleries everywhere and even the main exhibits have so many things in them. Everywhere you look, there are commemorative scarabs, beads, combs, cosmetic boxes and every sort of little trinket you could imagine. Continue reading
My New York Trip Day #3: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Today I was awake enough to go and attempt the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s something that I’ve wanted to see since I learned that they had an enormous Egyptian wing. As you guys obviously know by now, I’m a big fan of ancient Egypt so there was no way I’d miss out on this opportunity! But once I got in the doors, I was overwhelmed. The museum is even bigger than I’d thought so I decided to head to the Greco-Roman wing first, thinking I’d hit the Egyptian section later. Wrong! I got to the museum at 11:00 and left at 5:00 and that was barely enough time to appreciate everything in that wing from the Romans, Greeks and Etruscans.
One of the things I was constantly and consistently amazed by was the quality of metal work displayed in the early Greek civilization. I believe these are some Minoan or Cretan gold fragments and they’re even more impressive up close. The beautiful amount of detail the ancients managed on these tiny little gold pieces is fabulous. Later on their gold work gets even more intricate but even in their early civilization they created just amazing works of art. Continue reading