Panel

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This panel depicting the Crucifixion was originally the top of a casket or box made in northern Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century. The composition appears to have been copied from a lost wall painting by Altichiero (active ca. 1369–ca. 1384) or his school in Padua or Verona. It is one of very few examples where a large religious composition has been copied onto the lid of a casket. The technique of pen on wood with a cut-away, punched background was continued well into the sixteenth century on a variety of boxes and cassoni that have been attributed to workshops in the Adige Valley (notable examples in the Museo d'Arte Antica, Milan, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

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