Female Saint with a Book

Female Saint with a Book

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dressed in fashionable sixteenth-century costume and elaborate headdress, this female saint served as a saintly yet worldly exemplar for the medieval Christian.

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.