The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

This unusual and beautifully illustrated volume presents more than 140 art objects from the Year One, discusses the widely diverse cultures that produced them, and illuminates the connections among them. The range of the works is extraordinary- from Roman portraits and Celtic ornaments to Egyptian funerary masks, Parthian stone carvings, Indian sculpture, Chinese terracotta sculptures, Japanese ceremonial bells, a Mayan stone vessel, and more. This book accompanies an exhibition celebrating the millennium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 3 October 2000 to 14 January 2001. Amazon.com Review Two thousand years ago, the great civilizations of the world were unaware or only dimly conscious of each other. The Year One is the attractively produced catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that brings together art objects created in different parts of the world at the beginning of the first millennium, from Rome to India to China to the Americas. This intere