Title: Saint Martin Announcing to His Parents That He Will Become a Christian
Object type: Roundel
Date: 1430–35
Culture: Flemish
Medium: Linen plain weave underlaid with linen plain weave and embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in split and stem stitches, laid work, and couching, including or nué
Dimensions: Diameter (above mount opening): 6 1/2 in. (16.5cm)
Classification: Textiles-Ecclesiastical
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Boys, term: Men, term: Women, term: Saints