Stained Glass Panel with Saint Roch, the van Merle Family Arms and a Donor

Stained Glass Panel with Saint Roch, the van Merle Family Arms and a Donor

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is possible this striking panel is a posthumous representation of Gudula van Merle, who died of the plague in 1502. St. Roch, the pilgrim saint invoked against this terrible disease, stands behind her. The shape of the panel suggests it originally was part of the glazing in the familly's private chapel

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stained Glass Panel with Saint Roch, the van Merle Family Arms and a DonorStained Glass Panel with Saint Roch, the van Merle Family Arms and a DonorStained Glass Panel with Saint Roch, the van Merle Family Arms and a DonorStained Glass Panel with Saint Roch, the van Merle Family Arms and a DonorStained Glass Panel with Saint Roch, the van Merle Family Arms and a Donor

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.