Mirror of the Medieval World

by Wixom, William D.; Boehm, Barbara Drake; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

• ISBN13: 9780870997853
• ISBN10: 0870997858
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr

Summary

Displays over two hundred important objects representing the best of Medieval art as exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1999

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Philippe De Montebello
Preface	viii
Peter Barnet
List of Donors	x
Acknowledgments	xi
Contributors to the Catalogue	2	(1)
Twenty Years of Collecting Medieval Art	3	(9)
William D. Wixom
Early Europe: 7th century B.C.-4th century A.D.	12	(10)
Catalogue numbers 1-25
The First Christian Centuries: 4th-7th century	22	(18)
Catalogue numbers 26-47
Europe of the Invasions: 5-11th century	40	(12)
Catalogue numbers 48-66
Europe (Pre-Carolingian through Romanesque): About 800-1200	52	(30)
Catalogue numbers 67-94
Later Byzantium: 8th-14th century	82	(14)
Catalogue numbers 95-114
Europe in the 13th Century	96	(34)
Catalogue numbers 115-151
Europe in the 14th Century	130	(36)
Catalogue numbers 152-201
Europe in the 15th Century: The Early Decades	166	(16)
Catalogue numbers 202-222
Europe in the 15th Century: The Later Decades	182	(38)
Catalogue numbers 223-279
Europe in the 16th Century	220	(25)
Catalogue numbers 280-313
Selected Bibliography	245	(22)
Index	267	(13)
Photograph Credits	280