Castel San Elmo (from Cropsey Album)

Jasper Francis Cropsey

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The inscription on this delicate, distant view identifies the hilltop fortress, the darker building in the background, as the fourteenth-century Castel Sant’Elmo, overlooking the city of Naples. The white building in front is the Certosa di San Martino, a former Carthusian monastery (now a museum).

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art