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Location: The Met Cloisters

Plaque with the Crucifixion and the Holy Women at the Tomb, c. 870 (Carolingian, likely Metz), ivory, 23.8 x 12.3 x 0.6 cm (Met Cloisters and Musée du Louvre) — With two figures representing the Church and the Synagogue, this work demonstrates how Carolingians were negotiating the relationship between Christianity and Judaism

Depicting Judaism in a medieval Christian ivory

by Dr. Ariel Fein and Dr. Steven Zucker

How to identify the Christian figures of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John by their iconography, or symbols, in art

How to recognize the Four Evangelists

by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank

Pink Quran, Spain — Pages dyed pink, script from the Maghreb, and gold medallions make this Qu'ran especially spectacular

Bifolium from the Pink Qur’an

by Dr. Ariel Fein and Dr. Steven Zucker

This is one of three known Hebrew Bibles that survive from the Crown of Castile in the 14th century

From Medieval Spain to the Ottoman Empire, ...

by Dr. Ariel Fein and Dr. Beth Harris

lamentation grid — A theatre box in wood, the Sopetrán Lamentation is a stunning 15th-century sculpture from Spain.

The Sopetrán Lamentation in wood

by Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker

Jean le Noir, Bourgot (?), and workshop, Miniature of Christ’s Side Wound and Instruments of the Passion, folio 331r, in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, before 1349 (The Cloisters Collection) — Images of the side wound and the mystical tradition from which they emerge have provided fertile material for scholars engaged in “queering” the Middle Ages.

Mysticism and queer readings of Christ’s Side ...

by Dr. Maeve K. Doyle

Gil de Siloé (Burgos, Castile-León, Spain), Saint James the Greater, c. 1489–93, alabaster with traces of paint and gilding, 45.9 x 17.4 x 12.5 cm (The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — A Netherlandish artist, a Middle Eastern apostle, a Spanish queen, and a New York museum.

A Renaissance St. James as pilgrim

by Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Beth Harris

What a camel in New York reveals about medieval Spain.

Camel from San Baudelio de Berlanga

by Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker

Thumbnail. Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, late 4th–early 5th century C.E., pentelic marble, 53 x 27.5 x 22.2 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection) — An Early Byzantine sculpture of a woman with a scroll at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woman with Scroll

by Dr. Evan Freeman and Dr. Anne McClanan

Roll over Bellini, and tell Tintoretto the news. The Renaissance in Spain.

St. Michael defeats the devil in Renaissance ...

by Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker

Himmel , Adoration of the Magi, stained glass detail — Flashed or stained? Discover the historical techniques required to produce—and restore—this vibrant glass painting.

The conservator’s eye: a stained glass Adoration ...

by Sarah Barack and Dr. Steven Zucker

The Unicorn in Captivity (one of seven woven hangings popularly known as the Unicorn Tapestries or the Hunt of the Unicorn)- detail — This is a creature so pure it can’t be caught—maybe that’s why the meaning of the tapestry eludes us.

The Unicorn Tapestries

by Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris