Wool Roundel with Mythological Animal

Wool Roundel with Mythological Animal

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This wool textile depicts a mythological animal, a theme popular on textiles from the 6th to 9th century. The tapestry weave technique with the iconography suggests the piece was a copy of a silk textile. The piece is likely a smaller fragment of a larger hanging used in a domestic context.

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.