V & A treasures at the Met

Submitted by Milica on Mon, 2007-12-24 19:30
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City will host Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum May 20, 2008 – August 17, 2008.

The exhibit will take place in the first floor Wrightsman Exhibition Gallery and will feature rare treasures on loan from the V&A such as "the Carolingian ivory cover of the Lorsch Gospels, an ivory statuette of the crucified Christ by Giovanni Pisano, Donatello’s bronze Putto with Fish, and a pair of gilt-bronze statuettes of prophets by Hubert Gerhard."