Elisabetta Bianchini Vizzani

Lazzaro Casario

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This portrait was once part of the funerary monument of Elisabetta Bianchini Vizzani (ca. 1520–1589) in the Vizzani Chapel at San Giovanni in Monte in Bologna, where it was set up as a pendant to a similar portrait of her son, the historian Pompeo Vizzani (dated 1593), now in the Museo Civico at Bologna. The somber essences of the Counter Reformantion are visible in this realistic image of a widow.

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