Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), Nurse and Reformer

Luigi Saulini

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nurse Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) dedicated herself to reforming military hospitals and attracted worldwide admiration, especially for her valiant and compassionate service in Turkey in 1854–57 during the Crimean War, in the course of which she contracted a form of brucellosis called “Crimean fever.” Here she looks down with becoming modesty amid a show of crisp linen and lace.

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