Three plaques from a triptych with the Adoration of the Shepherds, Flanked by the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin Annunciate

Three plaques from a triptych with the Adoration of the Shepherds, Flanked by the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin Annunciate

Master of the Triptych of Louis XII

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These three plaques were reframed as a triptych in nineteenth-century Paris, but they probably do belong together, because all three display the characteristic figure style of the same workshop. The two wings indicate some acquaintance with Italian Renaissance architecture.


Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Three plaques from a triptych with the Adoration of the Shepherds, Flanked by the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin AnnunciateThree plaques from a triptych with the Adoration of the Shepherds, Flanked by the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin AnnunciateThree plaques from a triptych with the Adoration of the Shepherds, Flanked by the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin AnnunciateThree plaques from a triptych with the Adoration of the Shepherds, Flanked by the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin AnnunciateThree plaques from a triptych with the Adoration of the Shepherds, Flanked by the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin Annunciate

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.