An unknown man, perhaps a Florentine merchant

An unknown man, perhaps a Florentine merchant

Pietro Torrigiano

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is one of three busts that were in a room above the Holbein Gate, Whitehall, until 1759. The others represent Henry VII (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) and a cleric traditionally identified as John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (36.69), but that identification is now questioned.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

An unknown man, perhaps a Florentine merchantAn unknown man, perhaps a Florentine merchantAn unknown man, perhaps a Florentine merchantAn unknown man, perhaps a Florentine merchantAn unknown man, perhaps a Florentine merchant

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.