Light on stone : Greek and Roman sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art : a photographic essay / photographs by Joseph Coscia, Jr. ; text by Elizabeth Milleker.

Main entry:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Title & Author:

Light on stone : Greek and Roman sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art : a photographic essay / photographs by Joseph Coscia, Jr. ; text by Elizabeth Milleker.

Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2003]

Description:

100 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Director's foreword / by Philippe de Montebello -- Acknowledgments / by Elizabeth J. Milleker -- Light on Stone, an essay / by Elizabeth J. Milleker -- A photographic essay / by Joseph Coscia, Jr. -- Notes on the plates / by Elizabeth J. Milleker.

Summary:

"Light on Stone offers a visit to the new Greek Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since 1999 the Museum's collection of Classical marble sculpture has literally appeared in a new light. The galleries featuring Greek art of the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries B.C. have been renovated and reinstalled in a way that allows daylight to pour in through high windows and a clear skylight onto the marble statues and reliefs. Ever-shifting shadows and highlights appear to transform and animate these works. The photographs in this book attempt to capture some of those effects, showing statues in different kinds of light, in context with other works, and in close-up detail. An introductory essay and extended notes on each work of art give background information. The photography is by Joseph Coscia, Jr., Associate Chief Photographer in the Museum's Photograph Studio. The text is by Elizabeth J. Milleker, Associate Curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Art."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1588391035 (Hardcover)
9781588391032 (Hardcover)
1588391043 (Paperback)
9781588391049 (Paperback)
0300096925 (Yale University Press)
9780300096927 (Yale University Press)

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pictorial works.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Ouvrages illustrés.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
New York <NY> / Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sculpture, Classical Pictorial works.
Sculpture New York (State) New York Pictorial works.
Sculpture antique Ouvrages illustrés.
Sculpture New York (État) New York Ouvrages illustrés.
Sculpture première Ouvrages illustrés.
Sculpture
Sculpture, Classical
Antike
Plastik
Plastische kunst.
Klassieke oudheid.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York (State) New York
Römisches Reich
Griechenland

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks
Illustrated works
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Coscia, Joseph, photographer
Milleker, Elizabeth Johnston, writer of added commentary.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236925
Call No.: BIB 166772
Status: Available

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