Panel

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Combined with scrolling foliage, fantastic figures, and other ornamental elements—for example, the music-playing putti seen here—bearded and helmeted warriors surrounded by wreaths were a popular motif in French furniture. Prints by Italian artists such as Marcantonio Raimondi (ca. 1480–before 1534) and northerners such as Virgil Solis (1514–1562) were an important source for the antique-inspired profile heads.

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