On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Gospel Book
Not on view
The headpiece on the right is part of a thirteenth-century Cilician manuscript. The evangelist portrait on the left was added in Constantinople in the seventeenth century, and it emulates the art of the once powerful Armenian kingdom of Cilicia. The Renaissance-style architecture in the background and the use of perspective show the artist’s awareness of contemporary Western art being imported to Constantinople, often in printed books.
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