Walters Art Museum: Antiquities Collections: Assyria, Egypt, Greece & Rome

Let's continue highlights from my recent visit to the Walters Art Museum at the beginning.  The beginning of the collection vis a vis chronology of their holdings.  This takes us to the lower floor of the 1974 annex section of the building.  The grand foyer greets you with a pair of monumental Egyptian sculptures and an entrance meant to conjure the feeling of an ancient temple.  And it's fair to say that you are indeed entering a temple, a sanctuary of classic art.

While there are some absolutely lovely examples of Assyrian and Babylonian art along side of the example from Egypt, the bulk of the collection is Greek and Roman.  Over two dozen marble statuary, pottery, dished, works in bronze, gold, glass, urns, jewelry, sarcophagus--objects of beauty and wonder spanning more than a millenium of history and cultural evolution.

Relief with Winged Genius

Assyrian

885-859 BCE

Contemporary Trunk with Miniature Greek Symposium model

 Black-Figure Plate

Greek

600 BCE

Head of the Doryphoros

Roman

450 - 400 BCE

Red-Figure Volute Krater

South Italian

340 - 330 BCE

Torso of an Emperor in Armor

Roman

14 - 68 CE

Portrait of a Man

Roman

230 - 240 

Urn with Lid

Roman

50 - 100 CE

A dimly lit gallery with a dollhouse-like temple and a collection of mini-bronze gods within.

Hermaphroditus

Roman

1st Century, CE