Two-Sided Pendant with the Virgin and Christ Child and John the Forerunner

Two-Sided Pendant with the Virgin and Christ Child and John the Forerunner

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Byzantine artists often designed pendant icons so that the two sides related to each other.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two-Sided Pendant with the Virgin and Christ Child and John the ForerunnerTwo-Sided Pendant with the Virgin and Christ Child and John the ForerunnerTwo-Sided Pendant with the Virgin and Christ Child and John the ForerunnerTwo-Sided Pendant with the Virgin and Christ Child and John the ForerunnerTwo-Sided Pendant with the Virgin and Christ Child and John the Forerunner

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.