The earliest European sculpture to date portrays a female form, and has been estimated at dating from 35,000 years ago.
In the 1970's, the wing was planned to house the museum's collection of European sculpture and decorative arts.
It was to share the wing with the European sculpture and decorative-arts department.
Her father also had a collection of copies of European sculpture.
Every element of European sculpture can be seen on great mantels.
That they are devoted predominantly to European sculpture from 1400 to 1900 is quite unusual, at least in this country.
This is especially true for European sculpture after about 1400, when painting began to rule the roost of Western art.
But they rarely give any extended space to postmedieval European sculpture.
They were among the first European sculptures to come to Cincinnati.
As a museum of European sculpture, it comes at us from all sides and all periods.