BGuthrie Photos: NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. METADA_110529_020.JPG: A Bedroom from the Palazzo Sagredo, Venice Venetian, about 1718 The Palazzo Sagredo is situated on the right bank of the Grand Canal, next but one to the Cil d'Oro. It was acquired by Zaccaria Sagredo in the early years of the XVIII century from the Morosini family to whom it had hitherto belonged. Zaccaria largely remodeled the old medieval palace. His nephew Gerardo added a magnificent staircase by the architect Andrea Tirali, the walls of which were decorated (1734) by Pietro Longhi. The bedroom here exhibited was the principal one of the palace. It was decorated probably by the stucco-workers Carpoforo Mazetti and Abondio Stazio, whose names and the date 1718 appear on the stucco-work in a connecting apartment on the floor above. The ceiling is attributed to Gasparo Diziani of Belluno. In the reconstruction of the room the original condition has been preserved as far as possible, but a certain amount of repainting and regilding was necessary. The window frames, the paneled wood dado, and the terrazzo floor are modern. The brocatelle on the walls is of the period but not the original. The curtains are modern. The marble door-frames are almost identical with the original, but come from another building, the Palazzo Lezze.
2. METADA_110529_080.JPG: Strongbox German, late 16th or early 17th century This formidable steel strongbox is reinforced with an armature of the same material. Its elaborate locking mechanism, consisting of nine bolts and various leaf-shaped shields, offered the owner a safe storage place for his valuables. Corresponding to the eyes along the rim of the lid, the two pendant hasps in front allowed the use of additional padlocks. Nuremburg and the neighboring town of Augsburg were major metal-producing centers where armorers, locksmiths, and founders made arms and armor as well as useful wares such as locks, caskets, and strongboxes.
3. METADA_110529_337.JPG: Room from the Hotel de Varengeville, Paris, ca 1740 The Hotel de Varengeville, at 217, boulevard Saint-Germain, was built in 1704 by the architect Jacques Gabriel (1667-1742) for the widowed comtesse de Varengeville. Her daughter, who was married to the great military commander Hector-Louis, duc de Villars, sold the house in 1736 to Marie-Marquerite d'Allegre, comteste de Ruppelmonde, who owned it until her death in 1752. The comtesse de Ruppelmonde probably commissioned the paneling, vigorously carved with C-scrolls, S-scrolls, fantastic birds, palmettes, foliage sprays, and bats' wings. Some of the narrower panels display trophies emblematic of the seasons, military fame, princely glory, music, poetry, commerce, and gardening. The overdoor paintings of Autumn (left) and Poetry (right) by Francois Boucher (1703-1770), signed and dated 1753, are not original to the room.
4. METADA_110529_374.JPG: Room from the Palais Paar, Vienna, ca 1769-71 The paneling of this room comes from the Palais Paar, which stood at Wollziele 30, in Vienna, until 1938. The large, quadrilateral Baroque palace with a central courtyard was built about 1630 for the postmaster of the Holy Roman Empire. Baron Johann Christoph von Paar. Behind the twelve large windows above the two entrances of the main facade were four large staterooms. These rooms and the living quarters on the same floor were completely remodeled between 1765 and 1771 for Count Wenzel Joseph Johann von Paar by the architect Isidor Canevale (1730-1786) and the sculptor Johann George Leithner (1725-1785). The Museum's paneling is composed of elements from at least two rooms, which recent paint analysis has shown were originally painted in different shades of gray. The Museum's room epitomizes the last phase of rococo before it was subsumed by the Louis XVI style.
5. METADA_110529_445.JPG: Model for the Tomb of Gericault:, after 1840: The bronze tomb of the Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) is in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. On top, Gericault reclines in the manner of a Etruscan funerary effigy. The front bears a relief after his immortal Raft of the Medusa.
6. METADA_110529_451.JPG: Two Figures of Fame, ca 1835 These models are for the spandrels of the monumental Roman-style Porte d'Aix in Marseille, unveiled in 1835.
7. METADA_110529_459.JPG: The Actor Rouviere in the Role of Hamlet, Recoiling Before the Ghost, 1866 The composition was designed for the tomb of the actor Philibert Rouviere in Montmarte Cemetery in Paris. The tomb relief was subsequently stolen. In this case from the Barbedienne foundry, Preault's signature was effaced and replaced with that of the much larger sculptor Dalou.
8. METADA_110529_517.JPG: Emperor Henry IV at Canossa, ca 1770-75 Pope Saint Gregory VII excommunicated Emperor Henry IV for his interference in the appointment of clergy. In winter 1077, Henry followed the pope to Canossa and waited barefoot in the snow outside the castle for three days until he received a pardon. The scene, rarely shown in the eighteenth century, perhaps found special resonance in Bologna, the leading city of the Papal States. Gandolfi, a painter who was also an expressive sculptor, conceived an original and picturesque solution, giving the emperor shelter in a blasted tree trunk, his crown at his feet.
9. METADA_110529_558.JPG: A Hypocrite and Slanderer, ca 1770-83 Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
10. METADA_110529_591.JPG: The Demidoff Table, 1845 Lorenzo Bartolini
11. METADA_110529_620.JPG: Liberty, 1875 Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi This figure belongs to an edition of cast terracottas produced after a preliminary model for the Statue of Liberty. This "committee model," as it was known, was produced to help raise money to erect the statue in the New York harbor. There are numerous differences in composition between the early model and the statue as realized.
12. METADA_110529_640.JPG: Armoire, 1867 The central plaque of this "Merovingian" armoire depicts the victory of the troops of King Merovech over the forces of Attila the Hun in 1451. The prototype, a medal cabinet made for the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867, is in the musee d'Orsay, Paris. The armoire was commissioned by the cabinetmaker Diehl for his country house at Lagny.
13. METADA_110529_713.JPG: Marsyas, ca 1680 Balthasar Permoser Marsyas had the audacity to challenge Apollo to a musical duel, Marsyas playing his pipes, Apollo his viol. After Marsyas lost, Apollo flayed him alive. The bust was meant to be seen in a niche, probably outdoors and perhaps with an Apollo as a pendant.
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