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Terrible Beauty

C. Griffith Mann
2 min. watch

“Medieval art is very much about a multi-media experience.”

Curator C. Griffith Mann on the fifteenth-century painting Saint Michael by Master of Belmonte.

Contributors

C. Griffith Mann
Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters

Photography by Anne-Marie Kellen

Art Mentioned

Saint Michael, Master of Belmonte Spanish, Tempera and oil on wood, North Spanish
Saint Michael
Master of Belmonte
1450–1500

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