This altar piece embodies the culture of storytelling in the Middle Ages

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

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

Curator C. Griffith Mann on the painting "Saint Michael" by Master of Belmonte.

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Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world.

Photography by Anne-Marie Kellen

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

A collage of blurred images depicts people in various settings, with groups standing near structures and rocky landscapes. The mood is contemplative and somber.
I wept thinking of the many treks around prison rec yards I’d made with men whose crimes would never be forgiven, for whom freedom sometimes felt as unlikely as sainthood.
Reginald Dwayne Betts
June 24
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
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Saint Michael, Master of Belmonte  Spanish, Tempera and oil on wood, North Spanish
Master of Belmonte
1450–1500