The Met Fifth Avenue will close early at 5 pm on Friday, May 30 for an event.

Why is the virgin Mary so sad in this piece?

"It’s an expression that can be dead, unless we engage ourselves in it."

"It's an expression that can be dead, unless we engage ourselves in it."

Curator Keith Christiansen on "Madonna and Child," a painting by Berlinghiero.

Explore this object:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435658

Throughout 2013, The Metropolitan Museum of Art invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world. Each episode is interpreted by a Museum photographer.

Photography by Mark Morosse

Rights & Permissions
Consortium, Edward Barbieri, Director, 'I sat down under his shadow' by Edward C Bairstow © Oxford University Press 1925. All rights reserved. Recorded 1998 on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Deux-Elles Limited, DXL827

Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum?sub_confirmation=1

#TheMet #ArtExplained #Art


Contributors

Keith Christiansen
John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, Department of European Paintings

Two women in opulent dress and jewelry sit facing each other on a patterned carpet
Shimmering jewels in Pahari School paintings.
Olivia Dill and Marina Ruiz Molina
May 27
Futuristic sculpture of a fragmented, abstract human form in stone against a neoclassical arch. The tone is dynamic and modern amidst classical architecture.
How do Lee Bul’s sculptures hold space for critical remembrance to show how the past shapes our present?
Anne Anlin Cheng
May 16
More in:Art ExplainedReligion & Spirituality

A slider containing 1 items.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
Madonna and Child, Berlinghiero  Italian, Tempera on wood, gold ground
Berlinghiero
possibly 1230s