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Pair of Eyes

Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture

Pair of Eyes

Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture
  • Date: c.450 BC
  • Style: Classical
  • Theme: Polychromy
  • Genre: sculpture
  • Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
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Greek and Roman statues were designed to give a colorful lifelike impression. Marble and wood sculptures were brightly painted, and bronze statues were originally a pale fleshlike brown. Lips and nipples were often inlaid with copper, and teeth with silver. Eyes were usually made separately and set into prepared sockets. This pair, designed for an over-lifesize statue, gives a sense of the potent immediacy that ancient sculpture could convey.

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Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Cullman Gift and Norbert Schimmel Bequest, 1991

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