Fragment
Unknown Artist
13th century
Medium
Stained Glass
Dimensions
1 11/16 × 1 × 1/8 in. (4.3 × 2.5 × 0.3 cm)
Classification
Glass-Stained
Culture
Crusader
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928
Accession Number
28.99.671
Art Historical Context
This delicate stained glass fragment, dating to the 13th, offers a rare glimpse into the artistic world of the Crusader. Measuring just 1 11/16 × 1 × 1/8 inches, it survives as a tiny shard from what was likely a larger church window, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of's Medieval Art department.ated in 1928 by prominent collectors including Clarence H. and Bashford Dean, it exemplifies the fragile beauty of artifacts from the Crusades era. Crafted in the Crusader culture—referring to the Latin Christian states established in the Holy Land during the medieval Crusades—this piece reflects...