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The Classical World in Focus: Contests, Combat, and Commemoration 

On view July 14, 2018 through November 4, 2019 

Attributed to the Darius Painter, South Italian, Apulian, "Fragment from a Red-Figure Volute Krater (Mixing Vessel) with the Judgment of Paris", ca. 380-370 BC. Ceramic. Tampa Museum of Art, Joseph Veach Noble Collection, 1986.105.
Attributed to the Darius Painter, South Italian, Apulian, Fragment from a Red-Figure Volute Krater (Mixing Vessel) with the Judgment of Paris, ca. 380-370 BC. Ceramic. Tampa Museum of Art, Joseph Veach Noble Collection, 1986.105.

Contests, combat, and commemoration played important and often interrelated roles in ancient art, life, and culture. This small exhibition, drawn primarily from the Museum’s permanent collection, explores a number of these connections within both mythological and historical contexts. Altogether, some eighty works of Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Egyptian art are included, ranging from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD, and from painted pottery to sculpture in terracotta, bronze, and stone.