The Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion Group

The Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion Group

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Said to have come from the collegiate church of Notre-Dame at Huy in Belgium, these figures were probably part of a large sculptural retable behind the altar. They are stylistically related to the marble Virgin and Child (see 24.215), ordered in 1345 for the church of Saint Catherine at Diest, Belgium.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion GroupThe Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion GroupThe Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion GroupThe Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion GroupThe Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion Group

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.