Editing Metropolitan Museum of Art (section)

==== European sculpture and decorative arts ====
[[File:NYC - Metropolitan Museum - Carroll and Milton Petrie European Sculpture Court.jpg|thumb|European sculpture court]]
The European Sculpture and Decorative Arts collection is one of the largest departments at the Met, holding in excess of 50,000 separate pieces from the 15th through the early 20th centuries.<ref name="Metmuseum.org-1">{{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/museum-departments/curatorial-departments/european-sculpture-and-decorative-arts |title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art – European Sculpture and Decorative Arts |publisher=Metmuseum.org |access-date=June 11, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530060925/https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/museum-departments/curatorial-departments/european-sculpture-and-decorative-arts |archive-date=May 30, 2012 }}</ref> Although the collection is particularly concentrated in [[Renaissance]] sculpture—much of which can be seen ''[[in situ]]'' surrounded by contemporary furnishings and decoration—it also contains comprehensive holdings of furniture, jewelry, glass and [[Ceramic art|ceramic pieces]], tapestries, textiles, and timepieces and [[mathematical instrument]]s. In addition to its outstanding collections of English and French furniture, visitors can enter dozens of completely furnished period rooms, transplanted in their entirety into the Met's galleries. The collection even includes an entire 16th-century [[patio]] from the Spanish castle of [[Vélez Blanco]], reconstructed in a two-story gallery, and the intarsia ''[[studiolo]]'' from the ducal palace at [[Gubbio]]. Sculptural highlights of the sprawling department include [[Bernini]]'s ''[[A Faun Teased by Children|Bacchanal]]'', a cast of [[Auguste Rodin|Rodin's]] ''[[The Burghers of Calais]]'', and several unique pieces by [[Jean-Antoine Houdon|Houdon]], including his ''Bust of [[Voltaire]]'' and his famous portrait of his daughter Sabine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sabine Houdon |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/200668 |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=www.metmuseum.org|date=1788 }}</ref>