CBS) NEW YORK As Curator In Charge Carlos Picon and CBS 2’s Dana Tyler walked, Picon explained, “What we tried to do is show you in this great room within the colonnade works of art that would have stood in places in ancient Hellenistic Italy and Greece and Roman Empire.Works that would have stood in public places in sanctuaries, the more decorative works Tyler said, “What a beautiful setting though now look that’s the sky up there beautiful sunlight really enhances the experience, Carlos.” He answered. “It does!”
Picon and Tyler continued their tour. “Where we are standing right now is the beginning of Roman portraiture from the first century B.C. to the end of first century B.C. and the first century of our era. I want to share with you the statue, which is a long time favorite of our department and our audience. It shows an anonymous princely figure, a teenager, obviously someone given the honor of a bronze statue. Bronze was even more expensive than marble in antiquity!”
Moving on, Tyler said, “Now we are in the Greek and Roman study collection, what is that?” Picon explained, “Dana, I want you to understand, not obvious, we call it the study collection for lack of another name. This is over 3,500 objects, part of our collection of mirroring the whole breath and chronology of the department’s holding and objects that did not make it to our primary galleries. We don’t want to then show in an intimidating way, we want to show depth and diversity of our collection. It’s shown chronologically and thematically starting from earliest Greek from Neolithic period 6 B.C. ending with Roman Empire and we have works in every possible media.”
Tyler asked, “Where was all this stuff before?”
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