Glass Fragments

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Excavations by the Metropolitan Museum at a necropolis in Egypt's Libyan Desert revealed a domed funerary chapel with an intriguing form of decoration: glass vessels of various shapes and colors impressed into the plaster of the dome. These fragments come from a shallow bowl made of greenish-clear glass with a molded decoration of concentric circles within a checkerboard.

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