The Flood

Michel Anguier

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anguier, a French-born artist active in Rome from 1641-1651, worked with Bernini and Alessandro Algardi and was one of the latter's disciples picked to illustrate Old Testament scenes for the nave of San Giovanni in Laterano. This relief is a sketch-model for one of the series of thirteen stucco reliefs, intended as models for marbles but never subsequently executed, of Old and New Testament scenes. The relief, which was low-fired, has losses that were filled with daubs of plaster, some of which are now missing. The elongated, Manneristic style is in part due to the elasticity of the medium, which often led to figures becoming attenuated in model form.

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