Christ at the Column

Christ at the Column

Alessandro Algardi

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The silver plaque bears the arms of the Colonna family. In her will of 1659, Anna Colonna Barberini bequeathed to her brother, Cardinal Girolamo Colonna, a silver Christ at the Column. It could have been this one, except that the base was said to be ebony, not marble.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.