Daniel, Archbishop of Mainz

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An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Daniel Brendel of Homberg, archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire for Germany, was prince elector and Roman Catholic archbishop of Mainz from 1555 to 1582. The composition of this miniature portrait relief resembles large-scale epitaphs and may have been a model for a later tomb project. The archbishop likely kept this work in his personal art chamber in Mainz’s Martinsburg Castle, which is probably the building in the distance at right overlooking the Rhine.

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.

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