The Mourning Virgin

The Mourning Virgin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The figure is to be understood as part of a typical Crucifixion group of the Virgin and Saint John flanking the crucified Christ. The brilliant flame-like movement is a sign of the reviving Gothic. A taste for the Gothic never died out completely in Germany and it revisited the late baroque with a vengeance.

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.