Virgin adoring the Christ Child

Virgin adoring the Christ Child

Lelio Orsi (called Lelio da Novellara)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a devotional image which was very popular in Reggio Emilia. A painting of the composition and the drawing by Lelio Orsi (1569) upon which the painting is based are in the Chapel of the Madonna della Ghiara, Reggio Emilia.

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.