Gold Glass Medallion with a Mother and Child

Gold Glass Medallion with a Mother and Child

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The mother, a fashionably coiffed matron, is shown with her son. He wears a large gold pectoral, or neck ring. Medallions like this one, meant to be worn as jewelry, are closely associated with Alexandria.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gold Glass Medallion with a Mother and ChildGold Glass Medallion with a Mother and ChildGold Glass Medallion with a Mother and ChildGold Glass Medallion with a Mother and ChildGold Glass Medallion with a Mother and Child

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.