Scene from the Legend of the True Cross

Scene from the Legend of the True Cross

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Enthusiasm for embarking on Crusade waned during the fourteenth century, notwithstanding the the tight links drawn between belief in the True Cross and in the Crucifixion of Jesus, here witnessed not only by his mother Mary and Saint John (much effaced), but by a knight and his lady.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Museum's collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world. Displayed in both The Met Fifth Avenue and in the Museum's branch in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters, the collection encompasses the art of the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome in the fourth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. It also includes pre-medieval European works of art created during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.