Angels Bearing the Body of Saint Catherine to Mount Sinai

Angels Bearing the Body of Saint Catherine to Mount Sinai

Luigi Saulini

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This cameo reproduces a canvas (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin), famous in its day, by the German Nazarene painter Heinrich Karl Anton Mücke (1806–1891). It is one of Luigi Saulini’s largest and most splendid pieces. By reducing the painting’s colors to white on vivid redorange, he gave the airborne group extra emphasis. The stone would be heavy to wear mounted as jewelry and was probably made to be admired on its own in a case or frame or on a stand.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Angels Bearing the Body of Saint Catherine to Mount SinaiAngels Bearing the Body of Saint Catherine to Mount SinaiAngels Bearing the Body of Saint Catherine to Mount SinaiAngels Bearing the Body of Saint Catherine to Mount SinaiAngels Bearing the Body of Saint Catherine to Mount Sinai

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.