The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide to the Collections. Western European Arts, katalógus (1964)

The Metropolitan Museum oj Art Guide to the Collections WESTERN EUROPEAN ARTS By Eclltll A. Standen, Associate Curator Te Department of Western European Arts has as its province all works of art made in Europe from the beginning of the Renaissance until the present day, with the exception of paintings, prints, musical instruments, most costumes, and arms and armor. It is thus one of the largest and most varied depart­ments in the Metropolitan Museum, for it includes such items as whole rooms from palaces and great houses, tapestries and carpets, furniture, ceram­ics, metalwork, jewelry, and sculptures, large and small. There are about as many galleries in the Museum containing these things as there are illus­trations in this Guide. The objects come from Scan­dinavia and from the isles of Greece, from Portugal and from Russia, and from every country between these limits, northern and southern, eastern and western. They illustrate the changes in taste and 1. St. Michael, terracotta, by Andrea della Robbia, c. 1475

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