Abduction of a Sabine Woman

Abduction of a Sabine Woman

Giambologna

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The model for this two-figure composition was made by Giovanni Bologna about 1579, judging from a letter dated about 1579, from which we learn that he was ready to deliver a bronze cast of it to the Duke of Parma. The bronze described in this letter is now in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.

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.