Walk Through Time

My Aunt was in town from Boston this weekend visiting her "companion" and me.

Side note (I use companion cause I've never seen them kiss, never seen them touch. But they are in there 50's, won't ever move in together, so I think "companion" is the right word even if it seems cold. )

Long story short, Aunt S coming into town meant that I finally had someone to go to the MET with me. My favorite exhibit there is the Greek Rooms. They are partitioned exactly by the art periods according to my Greek Art History Professor. Anne the professor was the quintessential absent minded abroad teacher who teaches little classes like mine to keep up her tiny apartment, with no bed, but is truly an archeologist. She knows her stuff and loves doing it.

The Rooms start off in 900BC and statues look like Ridged Egyptian statues, and move through to The Hellenistic Period after Alexander the Great. What a great exhibit. Go SEE it.

I just remember when we weren't in classes at the Ancient Greek Art Museum in Athens we would have slide shows. Almost ALL of those slides I saw at the MET. It was truly amazing to see them not in a slide but up close. I think my aunt got a little bored when I went so slow through the Greek Rooms. Ooops.

This photo up top is my favorite from that Art History class in the Fall of 2005. The caption at the Met says in my abridged version : Frame is missing, have no idea who the deceased is on the grave stele. Who is looking where? Who is dead? The man, the daughter, or is she the sole survivor of the group?" (MET Rogers Fund, 1911)

Anyone want to take a guess?

I think the man is dead and the little person is a midget.