Three dancing nymphs and a reclining cupid in a landscape

Antonio Zucchi

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Originally set in the center of the drawing room ceiling of No. 4 Adelphi Terrace, London, the house of the architects Robert and James Adam, and surrounded by fourteen other painted medallions. The artist Antonio Zucchi was made an Associate Member of the Royal Academy in 1770 and was Robert Adam's principal decorative painter.

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