Crozier with Lamb of God

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The crozier was the pastoral staff based on the shepherd's crook and carried by bishops, abbots, and abbesses. This example belongs to a group of objects made in northern Italy. This crozier was originally made in sections with threaded ends. The three sections here have been damaged and repaired and are no longer separable. There may have been a fourth section, which is now lost.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art