Christ Bearing the Cross

Christ Bearing the Cross

Jean II Pénicaud

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The design is after a bronze medal by the Italian Valerio Belli (ca. 1468–1546), copied from an engraved rock-crystal plaque by the same artist that is now in the collection of the Vatican Museums.

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.