The Dwarf Morgante as Bacchus

Giambologna

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The model on which this piece is based has been attributed to Giovanni Bologna and dated ca. 1580 by analogy with the fountain group Morgante on the Dragon, now Museo Nazionale, Florence. Morgante (ca. 1535–after 1594) was the favorite dwarf of the Medici court.

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