Diptych with Scenes from Christ's Passion

Diptych with Scenes from Christ's Passion

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These Passion scenes closely correspond to both Parisian manuscript illumination and to sculptural examples. Because a large number of similar diptychs survive, it is thought that a single Parisian workshop produced them. The narrative reads from left to right, top to bottom: the Entry into Jerusalem and the Last Supper; Christ washing his disciples' feet and the Agony in the Garden; the Betrayal of Christ and the Crucifixion.

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.