San Antonio Museum of Art
Western Antiquities
San Antonio Museum of Art is home to a well regarded and breathtakingly beautiful collection of Greek and Roman antiquities. When the Museum undertook a reinstallation of the pieces in 2009, curator Jessica Powers, PhD directed the project, with exhibit design by Cliff La Fontaine, New York.
Map illustrations: David Chapman, Jenny McChesney
Framed pieces: San Antonio Photo Imaging, Art Incorporated
Documentary Photography: Mark Humphries
Greece in the Bronze Age: detail of the Aegean sea with its many islands, as well as the bordering Mediterranean and the island of Crete.
Art in Rome's Provinces, in context of the gallery.
Greek World map and timeline, Blackburn Gallery.
Detailed map of the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Marcus Aurelius presides in the Denman Roman Antiquities gallery.
Map and timeline of the Roman empire at its peak.
The Roman World: timeline from roughly the founding of Rome to the birth of Christ. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from the the British Isles to the Indus River.