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Winner of McQueen Fashion Design Contest Selected

June 16, 2011

By Shannon Bell Price

In conjunction with the exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art held a competition for fashion design graduate students this spring.
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Women in Classical Greece

October 1, 2004

By Colette Hemingway

In addition to childbearing, the weaving of fabric and managing the household were the principal responsibilities of a Greek woman. Young women, however, had some mobility in antiquity.
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Mystery Cults in the Greek and Roman World

October 1, 2013

By Kiki Karoglou

A pendant to the official cults of the Greeks and Romans, mystery cults served more personal, individualistic attitudes toward death and the afterlife.
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Time of Day on Painted Athenian Vases

October 1, 2004

By Jennifer Udell

The scenes of myth and daily life that decorate Athenian vases often have a pronounced sense of time, which is depicted in simple pictorial terms that are meant to be easily recognized.
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Visualizing the Afterlife

May 17, 2024

By Andrea Myers Achi and Akili Tommasino

Explore how artists across time and place have contemplated the afterlife.
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Exhibition at The Met Explores Dialogue Between Byzantine and Contemporary Art

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Tales and a Tune of the Willow

April 16, 2015

By Christina Alphonso

Administrator Christina Alphonso discusses the medicinal and magical properties of the willow in history.
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Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece

October 1, 2003

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

The Greeks believed that at the moment of death the psyche, or spirit of the dead, left the body as a little breath or puff of wind. The deceased was then prepared for burial according to time-honored rituals.
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Oberlin's Masterpieces on View at Metropolitan Museum

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Athenian Masterpieces in Etruscan Tombs

July 30, 2024

By Chiara Pizzirani and Delphine Tonglet

The magnificent volute-krater on loan from Ferrara.
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Persephone

Anita Huffington (American, born Baltimore, Maryland, 1934)

Date: 1999
Accession Number: 2002.401a, b

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Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Attributed to the Persephone Painter

Date: ca. 440 BCE
Accession Number: 28.57.23

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Persephone

Mary Frank (American (born England), London, 1933)

Date: 1985
Accession Number: 1997.452a-f

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Persephone

Bernard Childs (American, Brooklyn, New York 1910–1985 New York)

Date: 1958
Accession Number: 1988.1119

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Persephone

Mary Frank (American (born England), London, 1933)

Date: 1996–97
Accession Number: 1997.524

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Persephone

Mary Frank (American (born England), London, 1933)

Date: 1992
Accession Number: 2022.319

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Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)

Attributed to the Persephone Painter

Date: ca. 440 BCE
Accession Number: 08.258.27

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Terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Attributed to the Persephone Painter

Date: ca. 440 BCE
Accession Number: 41.83

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Fragment of a terracotta relief of a woman and child

Date: 4th century BCE
Accession Number: 10.210.75

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Terracotta fragment of the upper body of a woman

Date: 4th century BCE
Accession Number: 10.210.76