Plaque with the Crucifixion

Master of the Orléans Triptych

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Orléans Triptych, an Annunciation scene with wings depicting King David and Isaac, is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orléans, France. Another triptych is in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The enamels attributed to the master or to his workshop sometimes display figures with delicately drawn faces side by side with more mannered representations, bordering on caricature.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art