Africa & Byzantium
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York
19th November 2023–3rd March
2024 |
:
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Pentaglot
Psalter. 12th–
14th century,
restored and
rebound 1636. Ink
on parchment,
36.8 by 28 cm.
(Biblioteca
Apostolica
Vaticana,
Vatican City, MS
Barberini or.2,
fol.3r; Bridgeman
Images; exh.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Textile
fragment with
Artemis and
Actaeon(?).
5th–7th century.
Linen and wool,
147.3 by 183 cm.
(British Museum,
London; exh.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Diptych with
St George
and the Virgin
Eleousa. c.1500
(left) and c.1480–
90 (right).
Tempera and
gold on wood,
open: 12.2 by
20 cm. (Private
collection; exh.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York).
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