Dress for an altar figure

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Altar figures, often dressed in garments made from fine textiles, were used in processions to enhance the personal, worldly relationship with the spiritual. This unaltered garment, with its charming robe à la française styling, is a good example of the 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