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October 10, 2005
Midterm Break
Sorry to have been so lackadaisical about posting - I'm just back from spending most of midterm break in New York City. I finally ponied up the money to join the Met. I spent the whole time in the Greek rooms (not the Cypriot stuff upstairs, the Greek rooms) staring at the vase paintings. Usually I like sculpture more than vase paintings, but to be honest the Met's collection of small stuff is better than their Greek statuary -- the New York Kouros aside.
further: Click on the kouros link to see an odd photographic effect. Some objects don't look true-to-scale in photos; I'd never noticed it about the NY Kouros, but there you go -- it looks quite small in the Met's own photo. The statue is more or less life size but the photo makes it look smaller. Interesting. Go to this page and look at the 3 statues. The single figure is the kouros (Greek, "young man") - approximately 77 inches (6'5"). The two groups are both miniatures -- a 4.5 inch bronze of a man and a centaur and a 5.5 inch high ivory plaque of two women.
Why have they carefully photographed them to obscure the scale?
Posted by CrankyProfessor at October 10, 2005 10:29 PM