Visit To The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Danny Caceres
ART 201
Reaction Paper: Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Professor Applegate
Reaction Paper: Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the largest art collections in the world. The museum also known as The Met is an enormous, marvelous architectural structure that takes up the entire block on 82nd street in Manhattan. The Met has around two billion art pieces stored and displayed in its art galleries. Entering inside, I recognized myself going back into time, into a time period where people traded ideas and learned from each other. It is a past, where their ordinary tools, sculptures, or paintings are reflections of their culture and time period. These tools, sculptures, or paintings have been found and saved throughout history and are being shared for the world to view, admire, and learn from. During my visit at the museum, I viewed three exhibitions, Egyptian Art, Greek and Roman Art, and Ancient Near Eastern Art. My first exhibition I viewed was Egyptian art. The exhibition was being displayed into three subdivisions of time. The first was the Old Kingdom (3000-2155 BC), followed …show more content…
The temple of Dendur is from early Roman period, built during the rule of Augustus for both religious and esthetic purposes. The temple was built to honor the gods Isis, Harpocrates and Osiris. The temple is constructed from sandstone and measures 82 feet from the front gate to the rear of the actual temple. The temple base is decorated with carvings of papyrus and lotus plants growing out of the water of the Nile. Above the temple gate, a sun disk is engraved with wings which symbolizes god Horus representing the sky. On the outer walls of the temple Emperor Augustus as a pharaoh is praying and making offerings to the gods. Throughout the inner and outer walls of the temple, all surfaces are
ART 201
Reaction Paper: Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Professor Applegate
Reaction Paper: Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the largest art collections in the world. The museum also known as The Met is an enormous, marvelous architectural structure that takes up the entire block on 82nd street in Manhattan. The Met has around two billion art pieces stored and displayed in its art galleries. Entering inside, I recognized myself going back into time, into a time period where people traded ideas and learned from each other. It is a past, where their ordinary tools, sculptures, or paintings are reflections of their culture and time period. These tools, sculptures, or paintings have been found and saved throughout history and are being shared for the world to view, admire, and learn from. During my visit at the museum, I viewed three exhibitions, Egyptian Art, Greek and Roman Art, and Ancient Near Eastern Art. My first exhibition I viewed was Egyptian art. The exhibition was being displayed into three subdivisions of time. The first was the Old Kingdom (3000-2155 BC), followed …show more content…
The temple of Dendur is from early Roman period, built during the rule of Augustus for both religious and esthetic purposes. The temple was built to honor the gods Isis, Harpocrates and Osiris. The temple is constructed from sandstone and measures 82 feet from the front gate to the rear of the actual temple. The temple base is decorated with carvings of papyrus and lotus plants growing out of the water of the Nile. Above the temple gate, a sun disk is engraved with wings which symbolizes god Horus representing the sky. On the outer walls of the temple Emperor Augustus as a pharaoh is praying and making offerings to the gods. Throughout the inner and outer walls of the temple, all surfaces are