Portrait of a Lady

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This charming decorative panel features a bust of a woman on a yellow ground. The woman wears a checkered shirt, a jeweled diadem, stylized earrings, and a necklace. The size, technique, and square format of this fragment suggests that it was once part of a domestic furnishing, such a as cushion.

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