Dancing Amorini with Bacchic symbols

Giovanni Antonio Santarelli

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The mild gray ground is a foil for delicate movement and ornament. Giovanni Santarelli’s original wax-on-slate model (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) is oval. He expanded the compositional field onto a wider hexagon, from the outset sensing its suitability for a ring.

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