THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO CRÉCHE COLLECTIBLE ORNAMENT

Through the eighteenth century in Naples, the most skilled craftsmen, as well as the most important sculptors and set designers, worked together to elaborate an artistic form that became internationally known as the Neapolitan créche. The Art Institute's Neapolitan Créche assembles in the traditional Neapolitan scenography more than 200 eighteenth-century figures, and it is the best and most complete example of its present kind in the United States. new in box