The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met
The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met
The Good Life showcases the Museum’s important and rare collection of 3rd- to 8th-century art from Egypt and reevaluates it through the lens of late antique ideas about abundance, virtue, and shared classical taste.
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The Met Museum
May 24, 2021 to May 07, 2023
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This exhibition highlights The Met’s holdings of late antique textiles, decorative arts, jewelry, and sculpture—all highly prized by elite patrons of the Byzantine Empire’s southern provinces in Africa.

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Anchored by crucial gifts to The Met of late antique art, the exhibition explores themes connected to social status, wealth, and living well in Late Antiquity.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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New York, NY 10028

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Image: Medallion with a Portrait of Gennadios, 250–300, Roman / courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art