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Gallery 520 - Northern Renaissance Decorative Arts

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European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gallery 520
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gallery 520
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gallery 520

Gallery Highlights

  • Celestial globe with clockwork
    Celestial globe with clockwork

    Gerhard Emmoser (working 1556, died 1584)

    Date: 1579
    Accession Number: 17.190.636

  • Shrine
    Shrine

    Matthias Walbaum (Kiel, Germany 1554–1632 Augsburg, active Augsburg 1579–1632)

    Date: 1598–1600
    Accession Number: 17.190.823

  • Cup with cover
    Cup with cover

    Hans van Amsterdam (recorded 1535–65)

    Date: 1533/34
    Accession Number: 17.190.622a, b

  • Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V
    Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V

    Hans Daucher (German, ca. 1485–1538)

    Date: ca. 1522
    Accession Number: 17.190.745

  • Shield Bearer with the Ducal Arms of Saxony
    Shield Bearer with the Ducal Arms of Saxony

    Hans Daucher (German, ca. 1485–1538)

    Date: ca. 1520
    Accession Number: 1999.29

  • Diana and the Stag
    Diana and the Stag

    Joachim Friess (ca. 1579–1620, master 1610)

    Date: ca. 1620
    Accession Number: 17.190.746

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Exhibitions:

  • Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection
    From November 22, 2011
  • Plain or Fancy?
    From February 26, 2013
  • Furniture by Abraham and David Roentgen on loan from the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
    From January 29, 2013

Events:

  • Gallery Talk and Demonstration—Roentgen Furniture
    July 12, 2013
  • Summer Sketching—European Sculpture (Ages 11–18)
    July 24, 2013
  • Exhibition Tour—Plain or Fancy?: Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts
    July 25, 2013
  • Conversation with a Curator and a Conservator—The Roentgens' Berlin Secretary Cabinet
    August 2, 2013
  • Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution
    August 6, 2013
  • Maiolica to Porcelain: Revolution or Evolution?
    August 8, 2013

Events:

  • Maiolica to Porcelain: Revolution or Evolution?
    August 16, 2013
  • Gallery Talk and Demonstration—Roentgen Furniture
    August 16, 2013
  • Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution
    August 30, 2013
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Card No. 8, from the advertising card series "Cabinet Photos, Allen & Ginter" (H807, Type 2), issued by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights Cigarettes
"A Sport for Every Girl" - Women and Sports in the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick
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Living in Style - Five Centuries of Interior Design from the Collection of Drawings and Prints
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Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department
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The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi
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 Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection
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Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969
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This gallery celebrates the sumptuous art of the courts of northern Europe during the Renaissance. The walls are hung with outstanding late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century tapestries selected from the Met's collection and rotated on a regular basis. The treasures on display relate to the kunstkammer, or collector's cabinet: timepieces, exquisitely worked honestone and boxwood carvings, jewels, silver from Augsburg and Nuremberg, cups made with nautilus shells and coconuts, and reverse-painted and engraved glassware. Highlights include a clockwork celestial globe once owned by Emperor Rudolph II of Austria and an ingenious automated drinking cup featuring the hunter goddess Diana.

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