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Niccolò Fiorentino (Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This figure is one of the statuettes of Virtues which once adorned the tomb of Orsato Giustiniani, a prominent Venetian sea captain who died in 1464. The tomb was formerly in the Cloisters of Sant'Andrea della Certosa which occupies an island between the Lido and S. Pietro di Castello.

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