Triptych Panel with Pietá

Master of the Triptych of Louis XII

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The central panel is from a triptych with wings depicting Saint Catherine and Saint Sebastian. The scene of the dead Christ outstretched on the knees of his mother was probably based on a panel painting of the fifteenth-century Avignon school, such as the Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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