The Met: Roman Art

We've seen a great deal of Roman stuff over the years...the National Roman Museum in Rome, the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Pompeii, most of the museums and sites in most of the places the Romans conquered in Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor...lots of it more than once. Just enter "roman" in the search box....The Met has an extensive Roman collection, but the pix below reflect just some things new to us and some curiosities.

Huge hall of sculptural antiquities, both Roman and Greek; the mosaic-
like floor was hand-laid

Thus

Obligatory bust of Socrates...Roman copy...there must
have been full factories manufacturing these...we have
seen scores of them...

Sarcophagus...saw scores of these in Turkey, some the size of small houses

Etruscan chariot: two horse-power

Mouse-shaped glass flask...Roman sense of humor...one supposes

Now in the vast upstairs Greek and Roman Study Collection; arranged
by nationality, era, genre...

Helpful map...actually, a touch-screen on the wall where you can
locate what's of interest, then key-in an item's inventory number and
get its description, analysis, whatever...Roman, Greek, back through
the neolithic and beyond, mostly smaller items in the glass cases;
thousands of items...but, alas, no Gabinetto Segreto, as in Naples...

Gold hairnet with medallion, Hellenistic, 2nd BCE

Another gold ornament, with micro-chimes, 3rd BCE, Greek

Golden arm bands, Greek, 3rd BCE

New to us department: we have seen plenty of reconstructed Roman
rooms, with original panting, but never this kind of architectural
landscape...from the villa of  P. Fannius Synistor, Boscotrecase, 
late Augustan, a bedroom...

Use of shading, perspective that would have enlightened the
Renaissance types a thousand or more years later...the villa was
unearthed in about 1900CE; all done in true fresco, pigment
applied to wet plaster

Known to art historians as Second Style Greek painting...well worth
the price of admission, we thought...