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1 MetSpeaks Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms: From Pergamon to Rome Symposium May 4 5, 2016, 10:30 am 4:30 pm Symposium Evening Keynote Lecture: Mummies from the Ice: The World of Scythian Warriors in the Altay Permafrost May 5, 2016, 6 7:15 pm The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2 Leading scholars share new research that expands our understanding of the significance of Hellenistic art. May 5 Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms: From Pergamon to Rome Keynote 6 7:15 PM Leibniz Lecture Introduction Dorothee Dzwonnek, Secretary General, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, (DFG, German Research Foundation) Leibniz Lecture Mummies from the Ice: The World of Scythian Warriors in the Altay Permafrost Hermann Parzinger, President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Germany Free with Museum admission; reservations and tickets are not required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. The keynote lecture is free; please use the ground-level entrance at Fifth Avenue and 83rd Street Assistive listening devices are available from the ushers. Image: Rhyton in the Form of a Centaur (detail). Greek, Hellenistic period, ca. 160 B.C. Silver, partially gilt, H. 8 ⅝ in. (22 cm). Discovered in Falerii (Cività Castellana, Italy). Antikensammlung, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (VIIa 49)

3 May 4 Pergamene Studies May 4 Hellenistic Sculpture MORNING SESSION A 10:30 AM 12:15 PM Director s Welcome Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO, The Met Introductory Remarks Carlos A. Picón, Curator in Charge, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met Dorothee Dzwonnek, Secretary General, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Monumental Impressive Unique: Hellenistic Art and Architecture in the Restored Pergamon Museum Andreas Scholl, Director, Collection of Classical Antiquities, The National Museums in Berlin, Germany Luxury Goods from Pergamon in Hellenistic Times Agnes Schwarzmaier, Curator, Collection of Classical Antiquities, The National Museums in Berlin, Germany Pergamon and Its Micro-Region in Light of Recent Research Felix Pirson, Director, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Istanbul, Turkey INDEPENDENT VIEWING OF THE EXHIBITION A 12:15 1:30 PM AFTERNOON SESSION A 1:30 4:30 PM Diadems, Royal Hair, and the Berlin Attalos R. R. R. Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford Hellenistic and Roman Commemorative Military Sculpture: A Bronze Torso in The Met Seán Hemingway, Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met Dorothy H. Abramitis, Conservator, Department of Objects Conservation, The Met Karen Stamm, Conservator, Department of Objects Conservation, The Met Metallic Polychromy in Terms of Hellenistic Legacy: Roman Statuettes of an African Boy in the Pose of an Orator Sophie Descamps, Curator, Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities, Louvre Museum, France An Early Hellenistic Votive Statuette in The Met: Alexander-Dionysos? Kiki Karoglou, Assistant Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met Falling Hero: A Drunken Herakles in The Met Lillian Bartlett Stoner, Research Assistant, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met Pergamene Reflections in the Sanctuary of Diana at Nemi Olga Palagia, Professor of Classical Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

4 May 5 Hellenistic Decorative Arts I May 5 Hellenistic Decorative Arts II MORNING SESSION A 10:30 AM 12:15 PM Hellenistic Newcomers Carlos A. Picón, Curator in Charge, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met From Pergamon to Rome and from Rome to Pergamon: A Highly Fruitful Gift Alessandro Viscogliosi, Full Professor, Department of History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Poets, Performers, and Riddles in Hellenistic Mosaics Christine Kondoleon, George and Margo Behrakis Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art, Department of Art of the Ancient World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Late Hellenistic Sculpture and Roman Taste Paul Zanker, Dietrich von Bothmer Distinguished Research Scholar, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met INDEPENDENT VIEWING OF THE EXHIBITION A 12:15 1:30 PM AFTERNOON SESSION A 1:30 4:30 PM Early Portraits of Alexander the Great: The Numismatic Evidence Ute Wartenberg Kagan, Executive Director, American Numismatic Society All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Hellenistic Glass Christopher S. Lightfoot, Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met Precious Gems and Poetry in the Hellenistic Royal Courts Jeffrey Spier, Senior Curator, Antiquities Department, J. Paul Getty Museum Faience in the Hellenistic World Marsha Hill, Curator, Department of Egyptian Art, The Met Pergamene Pottery: At Home and Abroad Susan I. Rotroff, Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita, Washington University in St. Louis Transformations in Hellenistic Greek Pottery Joan R. Mertens, Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met

5 MetSpeaks metmuseum.org/metspeaks The Symposium is made possible by Mary and Michael Jaharis and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). German Research Foundation It is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World on view April 18 July 17, 2016 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition is made possible by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Betsy and Edward Cohen / Areté Foundation. Additional support is provided by Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman, Renée Belfer, Diane Carol Brandt, Gilbert and Ildiko Butler, Mary and Michael Jaharis, and The Vlachos Family Fund. It is supported by an Indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, James and Mary Hyde Ottaway, Mary and Michael Jaharis, and the Jenny Boondas Fund. The Met Fifth Avenue 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY metmuseum.org

email: cerveteri@gmail.com Room 101 Moffitt T/TH: 9:30-11:00

History of Art 190B Lisa Pieraccini, Ph.D. Spring 2009 email: cerveteri@gmail.com Room 101 Moffitt T/TH: 9:30-11:00 Office Hours Thurs. 11:00-12:00 Office: Doe 419A Etruscan Italy The Etruscans, dismissed