Orpheus Attacked by the Maenads

Orpheus Attacked by the Maenads

Suzanne de Court

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The object is a fragment of a watchcase cover; the image was taken from an uillustration by Bernard Salomon (ca. 1508–ca. 1561) for an edition of the Latin poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, first published in Lyon by Jean de Tournes in 1559.

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.