Since our last upload, we were able to take our first real trip since pre-COVID times, traveling both to New York City as well as to upstate New York to visit family. One of the many draws of visiting at this time was the final days of the Manet/Degas exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A comparing and contrasting of the two contemporaries saw more than 160 works sharing the same space and offered a great chance to see numerous paintings in particular that would otherwise have been difficult to view so easily. Given that the exhibition was in its final days of availability, the queues were tremendously massive, with lines simply to get into the museum taking some time. While there, however, we were able to view numerous other exhibits, installations, and collections, with these glass and gold leaf Roman portrait medallions (from the exhibition The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met) being of particular intrigue.