Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This monumental image of the Virgin and Child is carved in the style of Parisian sculptures from about 1340. Here, the Christ Child playfully reaches for the Virgin's veil. Remarkably, the sculpture retains most of its original paint and gilding and appears today much as it would have in the fourteenth century.

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.