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Past Exhibition

Impressions of the Imagination: New Medieval Beasts in Print

5 февраля–3 марта 2026 г.

Across two gallery visits, students studied dragons’ tails, griffins’ stances, and unicorns’ shimmer tapestry tails, noting medieval uses of line and pattern.

Essay

Late Medieval German Sculpture

October 1, 2002

By Julien Chapuis

The mobility of late medieval artists ensured the dissemination of styles over wide geographic areas.

editorial

A Medieval Imagination

November 13, 2025

By Shirin Fozi and Julia Perratore

Discover how American sculptor George Grey Barnard’s fascination with medieval European art inspired an enterprising collection and the eventual foundation of The Met Cloisters.

Essay

Animals in Medieval Art

October 1, 2001, revised January 1, 2012

By Melanie Holcomb and Barbara Drake Boehm

In addition to providing intriguing interpretations of animals, bestiaries offered tales about the existence of bizarre and loathsome creatures, many of which appeared in medieval art.

Essay

Artistic Interaction among Cultures in Medieval Iberia

September 1, 2016

By Julia Perratore

During the medieval period, peoples of three faiths—Islam, Christianity, and Judaism—inhabited this land, undertaking sustained and intensive interactions that proved especially fruitful for the visual arts.

video

How to Look like a Medieval Unicorn Hunter

April 22, 2022

By Cecilia Zhou

Travel back in time with a medieval look inspired by The Met’s beloved The Unicorn Tapestries and see how you can replicate one of the hunters from the tapestries using makeup.

Essay

How Medieval and Renaissance Tapestries Were Made

February 1, 2008

By Thomas P. Campbell

In European medieval and Renaissance practice, the design was invariably copied from a full-scale colored pattern, known as the cartoon, a practice that continues to this day.

editorial

Transplants in the Medieval Garden

May 8, 2014

By Caleb Leech

Caleb Leech, the new managing horticulturalist at The Cloisters, introduces himself and discusses the spread of horticultural knowledge and plants throughout medieval Europe.