Adoration of the Shepherds and Adoration of the Magi

Adoration of the Shepherds and Adoration of the Magi

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The technique of enamel painting is thought to have been introduced into Lombardy between 1470 and 1480. The style here is close to that of several miniature painters who worked for the Milanese ducal court of the Sforza. The frame is a sixteenth-century addition.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.