Pendant

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pendants with representations of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception became especially popular as fervor for this belief grew at the beginning of the seventeenth century and pressure mounted to have it codified as dogma. The depiction of the Immaculada in this simply formed jewel is particularly close to that of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the patroness of New Spain. Banners of the confraternities also featured the custodia of the Eucharist, which is enameled on the back of this venera.

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