{"id":13208,"date":"2023-01-18T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=13208"},"modified":"2023-01-18T22:45:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T03:45:02","slug":"a-world-of-sports-at-the-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/a-world-of-sports-at-the-met\/","title":{"rendered":"A World of Sports at The Met"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><sub>Egle \u017dygas<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If sports inspire and engage you\u2014as a participant or as an observer\u2014then you already know the important role they&#8217;ve played throughout history. But did you know that depictions of athletes and athletic endeavors from over two millennia around the world can be found in many galleries at The Met? Here are just 10 of the sports-inspired artworks and objects in the Museum.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Works with racing, running, and training themes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Running and Training in Ancient Greece<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ancient Greeks admired and believed the human body to be the most beautiful of forms and worked to perfect their bodies through exercise. Games were held throughout Greece and they also served an essential role in training warriors for battle in the frequent wars between the Greek city-states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/collectionapi.metmuseum.org\/api\/collection\/v1\/iiif\/248902\/541985\/main-image\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Masked Race on the Ivory Coast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Dan communities of western C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, dangerous immaterial forest spirits are translated into the forms of human face masks. One spirit embodied in such masks is Gunye Ge, whose mask is worn by a community&#8217;s champion foot racer in competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A runner wearing such a mask chases an unmasked runner and if he catches him, he keeps his mask. If he doesn&#8217;t the unmasked runner puts on his own mask and chases another competitor in turn. At the end of the dry season, the runner with the most victories is the champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/-\/media\/images\/blogs\/now-at-the-met\/2017\/2017_09\/sports\/4.jpg?as=1&amp;mh=1662&amp;mw=1440&amp;sc_lang=en&amp;hash=C7AF5557B2F93B9A5AB6B77488F0C310\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Yakouba carver. Face mask (Gunye Ge), 19th\u201320th century.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If sports inspire and engage you\u2014as a participant or as an observer\u2014then you already know the important role they&#8217;ve played throughout history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":13231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[98],"class_list":{"0":"post-13208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts","8":"tag-art"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13208"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13230,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208\/revisions\/13230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}