Fragment from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Austria

Fragment from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Austria

Jean de la Huerta

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This delicately carved fragment comes from the tomb of Duke, John the Fearless and Margaret of Austria, one of the most important sculptural monuments of the middle ages. It belongs to the architectural decoration that surmounts the mourner figures which form the principle decoration of the sides of the tomb. Made originally for the Chartreuse de la Sainte-Trinité de Champmol, the Carthusian monastery on the outskirts of Dijon, the tomb has been reconstructed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon where it is exhibited today.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fragment from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of AustriaFragment from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of AustriaFragment from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of AustriaFragment from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of AustriaFragment from the Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Austria

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.