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A growing collection of medieval objects selected for close looking. Filter by museum location or recorded place of origin. Every record links to its museum source and identifies image rights.

Museum location is where the collection is held. Origin / culture follows the museum’s record.

92 objects · 3 museum collections · image rights on each record

Appliqué Figure of Christ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Appliqué Figure of Christ

Unknown maker · 13th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arms of the Cistercian Order at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Arms of the Cistercian Order

Unknown maker · 1547

Cleveland Museum of Art

Ivory Fragments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Early Medieval

Ivory Fragments

Unknown maker · 4th–7th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars (recto) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars (recto)

Unknown maker · c. 1500–1510

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for May (recto) and Calendar Page for June (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for May (recto) and Calendar Page for June (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)

Unknown maker · c. 1510

Cleveland Museum of Art

Manuscript Illumination with the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen in an Initial E, from a Gradual at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Manuscript Illumination with the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen in an Initial E, from a Gradual

Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna · ca. 1394–1402

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ornamenteret initial M at SMK

Gothic

Ornamenteret initial M

Unknown · 1300-1350

SMK — National Gallery of Denmark

Ornamenteret initial Q at SMK

Gothic

Ornamenteret initial Q

Unknown · 1300-1350

SMK — National Gallery of Denmark

Pricket Candlestick at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Pricket Candlestick

Unknown maker · 13th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Byzantine

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Unknown maker · early 9th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plaque: Simon and Thaddaeus at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Plaque: Simon and Thaddaeus

Unknown maker · c. 1160

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque: Thomas and Matthew at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Plaque: Thomas and Matthew

Unknown maker · c. 1160

Cleveland Museum of Art

Box with Equestrian Falconers at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Box with Equestrian Falconers

Unknown maker · 13th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto) and Text (verso) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto) and Text (verso)

Boucicaut Master · c. 1415

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Coptic Manuscript at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Leaf from a Coptic Manuscript

Unknown maker · 6th–14th century (?)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ornamenteret initial C at SMK

Gothic

Ornamenteret initial C

Unknown · 1300-1350

SMK — National Gallery of Denmark

Ornamenteret initial R. at SMK

Gothic

Ornamenteret initial R.

Unknown · 1300-1350

SMK — National Gallery of Denmark

Panels at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Panels

Unknown maker · c.1200–1225

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque: The Crucifixion at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Plaque: The Crucifixion

Unknown maker · c. 1345–1365

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque with Jesus’ Entry into Jerusalem at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ottonian

Plaque with Jesus’ Entry into Jerusalem

Unknown maker · 900–925

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portable Altar and Two Side Panels at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Romanesque

Portable Altar and Two Side Panels

Unknown maker · 9th–12th century and/or later

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Roundel with the Annunciation at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Roundel with the Annunciation

Unknown maker · c. 1470

Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment of an Ornamental Crest from a Reliquary Shrine at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Fragment of an Ornamental Crest from a Reliquary Shrine

Unknown maker · c. 1165–1180

Cleveland Museum of Art

Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist (lid) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine

Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist (lid)

Unknown maker · 1300s

Cleveland Museum of Art

Shrine of Saint Anne and the Holy Kinship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Shrine of Saint Anne and the Holy Kinship

Unknown maker · late 15th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Leaves from a Coptic Manuscript at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Leaves from a Coptic Manuscript

Unknown maker · 6th–14th century (?)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Panel of Venus, “Pudica Type” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Byzantine

Panel of Venus, “Pudica Type”

Unknown maker · 4th–6th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Silenus, the Tutor of Dionysos at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Byzantine

Silenus, the Tutor of Dionysos

Unknown maker · 4th–7th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Angel at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medieval collection

Angel

Unknown maker · ca.1275

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Book-Shaped Reliquary at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Ottonian

Book-Shaped Reliquary

The Master of the Registrum Gregorii · c. 1000

Cleveland Museum of Art

Crucifix at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Romanesque

Crucifix

Unknown maker · ca. 1150–1200

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Decorative Plaque, Probably from a Reliquary Shrine at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Decorative Plaque, Probably from a Reliquary Shrine

Unknown maker · c. 1200

Cleveland Museum of Art

Enthroned Virgin and Child at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Unknown maker · c. 1250

Cleveland Museum of Art

Heart-Shaped Panel: Figure of a Woman with a Banderole (Sibyl ?) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Heart-Shaped Panel: Figure of a Woman with a Banderole (Sibyl ?)

Unknown maker · c. 1480–1520

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Last Judgment at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Last Judgment

Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish) · 1430s

Cleveland Museum of Art

Manuscript Leaf Cutting from a Choir Book with an Illuminated Initial B and the Archangel Michael at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Manuscript Leaf Cutting from a Choir Book with an Illuminated Initial B and the Archangel Michael

Unknown maker · second half of the 15th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ornamenteret initial O at SMK

Late Gothic

Ornamenteret initial O

Unknown · 1425-1500

SMK — National Gallery of Denmark

Ornamenteret initial S, hvis buer delvist er udformet som drager at SMK

Gothic

Ornamenteret initial S, hvis buer delvist er udformet som drager

Unknown · 1300-1350

SMK — National Gallery of Denmark

Pendant Triptych with an Onyx Cameo of the Nativity at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Pendant Triptych with an Onyx Cameo of the Nativity

Unknown maker · c. 1460–1500; cameo: c. 1250–1300

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque, probably from a Reliquary Shrine at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Plaque, probably from a Reliquary Shrine

Unknown maker · 1225–1250

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Trinity: Leaf from a Gradual with Initial B at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

The Trinity: Leaf from a Gradual with Initial B

Perugino · c. 1496–1502

Cleveland Museum of Art

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus

Unknown maker · ca. 1350–75

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Folding Shrine with Virgin and Child at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Folding Shrine with Virgin and Child

Unknown maker · ca. 1340–50

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Heraldic Roundel at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Heraldic Roundel

Unknown maker · 1500s

Cleveland Museum of Art

Kristus omfavnende en kvinde (personificerende de troende?) Forneden "Salomon" og "Hester" at SMK

Late Gothic

Kristus omfavnende en kvinde (personificerende de troende?) Forneden "Salomon" og "Hester"

Unknown · 1425-1449

SMK — National Gallery of Denmark

Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross

Unknown maker · c. 1430

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Bible: Initial E: Entwined Lions and Serpents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Leaf from a Bible: Initial E: Entwined Lions and Serpents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves)

Unknown maker · c. 1225–50

Cleveland Museum of Art

Manuscript Illumination with Scenes of Easter in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Manuscript Illumination with Scenes of Easter in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary

Nerius · ca. 1320

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Manuscript Illumination with the Beheading of Saint Paul in an Initial S, from a Gradual at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Manuscript Illumination with the Beheading of Saint Paul in an Initial S, from a Gradual

Master of Bagnacavallo · ca. 1278

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Panel with San Millán at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Romanesque

Panel with San Millán

Master Engelram and his son Redolfo · 1060–80

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi" (pair) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi" (pair)

Unknown maker · c. 1220

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket

Master G. Alpais · 1220–25

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing the Crucifixion at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing the Crucifixion

Unknown maker · 1050–1100

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portable Altar at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Portable Altar

Unknown maker · c. 1200–1220

Cleveland Museum of Art

Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine

Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist

Unknown maker · 1300s

Cleveland Museum of Art

Seated Virgin and Child at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Seated Virgin and Child

Unknown maker · mid-13th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis

Unknown maker · ca. 1350

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Panel with a Standing Figure of Christ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Romanesque

Panel with a Standing Figure of Christ

Unknown maker · late 11th–early 12th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pectoral with Christ and the Lamb of God and the Symbols of the Four Evangelists at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Early Medieval

Pectoral with Christ and the Lamb of God and the Symbols of the Four Evangelists

Unknown maker · 1000–1050

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plaque: The Crucifixion and Virgin and Child with Angels at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Plaque: The Crucifixion and Virgin and Child with Angels

Unknown maker · c. 1250–70

Cleveland Museum of Art

The So-called Horn of Saint Blaise at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

The So-called Horn of Saint Blaise

Unknown maker · 1100–1200

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Story of Lucretia at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

The Story of Lucretia

Master of the "Kanis Triptych" (Netherlandish) · c. 1530

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Trinity at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

The Trinity

Laurent Girardin · c. 1460

Cleveland Museum of Art

De elskende at SMK

Late Gothic

De elskende

Monogrammist BxG · 1470-1490

SMK — National Gallery of Denmark

Kongernes tilbedelse at SMK

Late Gothic

Kongernes tilbedelse

Martin Schongauer · 1430-1491

SMK — National Gallery of Denmark

Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso)

Unknown maker · c. 1524

Cleveland Museum of Art

Manuscript Illumination with Crucifixion in an Initial T, from a Missal at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Manuscript Illumination with Crucifixion in an Initial T, from a Missal

Unknown maker · ca. 1400

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi" at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi"

Unknown maker · c. 1220

Cleveland Museum of Art

Priest holding a Reliquary at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Priest holding a Reliquary

Unknown maker · third quarter 13th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reliquary at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Reliquary

Unknown maker · 1200–1300

Cleveland Museum of Art

Reliquary of Saint Stephen at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gothic

Reliquary of Saint Stephen

Unknown maker · 13th century (Saint Stephen); 19th century (base and backboard)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reliquary of the True Cross at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Reliquary of the True Cross

Unknown maker · c. 1214

Cleveland Museum of Art

White marble table support carved with a sea monster swallowing and disgorging Jonah beside a merchant ship

Late Antique

Table Base with Jonah Swallowed and Cast Up by the Big Fish

Unknown Roman sculptor, Asia Minor · early 300s

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Round gold brooch set with red garnets and glass in cell-work, with filigree interlace between the settings

Insular

Disk Brooch

Unknown Anglo-Saxon goldsmith, Kent · early 600s

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ivory plaque with an enthroned haloed woman holding a cross-topped staff and spindles, framed by an egg-and-dart border

Carolingian

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church

Unknown Carolingian ivory carver, Aachen · ca. 800–825

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ivory panel showing the Virgin lying on a bier surrounded by apostles, with Christ standing behind holding her soul as a small swaddled figure

Byzantine

Icon with the Koimesis

Unknown Byzantine ivory carver, probably Constantinople · late 900s

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ivory plaque with Christ enthroned before an openwork chequered ground, receiving a model church from a small figure of the emperor among saints

Ottonian

Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

Unknown Ottonian ivory carver, probably Milan · ca. 962–968

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Carved wooden Virgin seated frontally on a throne with the Child on her lap, drapery rendered in rhythmic linear folds

Romanesque

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Unknown Burgundian sculptor, vicinity of Autun · ca. 1130–1140

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small house-shaped reliquary of gilded copper with figures of Christ and saints in blue and green champlevé enamel

Romanesque

Chasse of Champagnat

Unknown Limoges enameller · ca. 1150

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Manuscript page with an angel blowing a trumpet beneath darkened sun, moon and stars, and a large eagle in flight against banded colour

Romanesque

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Fourth Angel Sounds the Trumpet and an Eagle Cries Woe

Unknown Spanish illuminator · ca. 1180

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stained glass panel with a haloed bishop appearing to a monk lying in bed, set against a deep blue ground

Gothic

Vision of Saint Germain of Paris

Unknown Parisian glass painter · 1245–47

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small gold-ground panel of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, who reaches up to her veil, above a painted parapet

Gothic

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rectangular ivory casket carved on every side with knights, ladies and a besieged castle in low relief

Gothic

Box with Romance Scenes

Unknown Parisian ivory carver · ca. 1310–30

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gold-ground panel with the three kings before a stable, one kneeling and lifting the Christ Child from the Virgin’s lap

Gothic

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Opening of a tiny prayer book with facing grisaille miniatures of the Betrayal of Christ and the Annunciation, with figures in the margins

Gothic

The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gold-ground panel of a grey-haired, bearded saint holding a book and a cross, in its original rectangular frame

Gothic

Saint Andrew

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Manuscript page with a framed miniature of Saint Jerome in a woman’s dress surrounded by clerics, within a foliate border

International Gothic

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small alabaster figure of a hooded mourner, face hidden, wrapped in deeply carved folds of cloth

International Gothic

Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy

Claus de Werve · 1404–10

Cleveland Museum of Art

Large gold-ground icon of the Virgin pressing her cheek to the Christ Child, who reaches up towards her face

Byzantine

Icon of the Mother of God and Infant Christ (Virgin Eleousa)

Attributed to Angelos Akotantos · c. 1425–50

Cleveland Museum of Art

Small brass astrolabe with an openwork star map on its face and engraved scales around the rim

Late Gothic

Astrolabe

Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller) · 1462

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alabaster group of Saint Jerome in a cardinal’s hat bending to draw a thorn from the paw of a lion

Late Gothic

Saint Jerome and the Lion

Tilman Riemenschneider · c. 1495

Cleveland Museum of Art

Tapestry of a white unicorn resting inside a low circular fence beneath a pomegranate tree, on a dense ground of flowering plants

Late Gothic

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Unknown South Netherlandish weavers, after a French cartoon · 1495–1505

The Metropolitan Museum of Art