Mask of Bearded Satyr

Mask of Bearded Satyr

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This mask formed a portion of a monument at Leghorn of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand I de' Medici, with a marble statue representing the duke by Giovanni Bandini, the four Moorish slaves and bronze fittings by Pietro Tacca. Monument erected about 1609 by Cosimo II.


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.