"The Gothic workmen of the thirteenth century welcomed the spiral as a decorative motive almost more warmly than their Greek predecessors had admired it before them." -Theodore Andrea Cook  
("The Curves of Life" Cook 289)

MEDIEVAL ART

The works of art in this room reveal that even in the period between the Classical Age and the Renaissance, spirals continued to be represented in Western Art. Many surviving examples are rudimentary and simple, though some are more complex.  In the Medieval Period the spiral pattern seems to have flourished mainly as an element of decoration, and was often reminiscent of coiling vines or other natural shapes. 

Name: "Annunciation in an Initial M"
Date: ca. 1310–15
Artist: Maestro Daddesco
Current Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Name: Ceramic Painted Vessel
Date: 6th Century
Artist: Unknown
Current Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Name: Textile Printing Block
Date: 10th Century
Artist: Unknown
Current Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Name: Pair of Doors Carved in the 'Beveled Style'
Date: 9th Century
Artist: Unknown
Current Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Name: Wood Panel
Date: 13th/14th Century
Artist: Unknown
Current Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York