Frieze

Antonio di Neri Barili

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The panel formed part of the frieze of the choir stalls in the chapel of Saint John the Baptist in the Siena cathedral. Executed in the Sienese workshop of Antonio di Neri Barili between 1483 and 1502, the stalls were removed in 1661. At least seven of the original nineteen seating sections were installed by Marchese Flavio Chigi in the collegiate church of San Quirico d'Orcia in 1749.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art