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Light on Stone:
Greek and Roman Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Elizabeth J. Milleker and Joseph Coscia Jr.
Since 1999, the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of Classical marble sculpture has literally appeared in a new light. The galleries featuring Greek art of the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries b.c. have been renovated and reinstalled in a way that allows daylight to pour in through high windows and a clear skylight onto the marble statues and reliefs. This light—ever changing with the weather, times of day, and times of year—appears to bring the statues to life and to resculpt them with shifting shadows and highlights.
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