Resumen de The Art of Medieval Iberia at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Met Cloisters

Julia Perratore

• This essay reflects upon the rich holdings in medieval Iberian art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, acknowledging both the organizational challenges and intellectual rewards of delving into this multifaceted collection. Focusing on the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, it highlights a selection of artworks that reveal encounters between people of different faith traditions in medieval Iberia. In so doing, it argues for the importance of looking to the visual arts for layered, complex, and nuanced testimonies of interfaith interaction in the medieval peninsula.