Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages

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Set in the stunning atmosphere of The Met Cloisters, this exhibition explores the often-overlooked themes of desire, sexuality, and gender in the medieval past, a period of time when most artistic production served religious purposes. Desire in the Middle Ages was multifaceted. It could be courtly or carnal, sacred or subversive, and expressed as a kind of longing, suffering, or joy. Medieval artists could be both deeply serious and comical in their evocations of these feelings. Drawing on decades of scholarship, Spectrum of Desire opens up new ways of seeing the past through stirring works of art that inspire us to think more expansively about people who lived in the Middle Ages, their rela

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About the venue

New York, United States

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas, housing an encyclopedic collection.

38 exhibition records3,154 works available to listen

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