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Past Exhibitions
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Dragon Aquamanile, Mosan (Meuse Valley, Modern Belgium or Germany), ca. 1120. Gilded copper alloy with niello and silver overlay; 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm). Victoria & Albert Museum (1471–1870).
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Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Through August 17, 2008
Wrightsman Exhibition Gallery, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, 1st floor
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London houses one of the world’s finest collections of European decorative arts. The institution is currently undergoing extensive renovations, providing a rare opportunity for the museum to lend some of its precious medieval and Renaissance works. On display at the Metropolitan are 35 treasures from the collection that are seldom lent, and most have not been seen previously in New York. Included in the exhibition are the Carolingian ivory cover of the Lorsch Gospels, an ivory statuette of the crucified Christ by Giovanni Pisano, Donatello’s bronze Winged Putto with Fantastic Fish, a pair of gilt-bronze statuettes of prophets by Hubert Gerhard, and the Codex Forster 1, one of Leonardo da Vinci's treasured notebooks.
Accompanied by a publication. The exhibition was organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The exhibition is made possible by The David Berg Foundation. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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