 Garden at The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park, New York City The Cloisters is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the art and architecture of the European Middle Ages. The Cloisters is located in New York City, specifically Fort Tryon Park near the northern tip of Manhattan island on a hill overlooking the Hudson River. The Cloisters include the museum building and the adjacent 4 acres (16,000 m²). The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum, 300 pixels x 400 pixels, © 2003, by Wikipedia user:alex756, all rights reserved; the license granted herein is to Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Elevation The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ...
The Park in late March 2007 Fort Tryon Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan, USA, . It is situated on a 67-acre (270,000 m²) ridge in Upper Manhattan, with a commanding view of the...
Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. ...
The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its southern terminus, demarcates the border between the states of New York and New Jersey. ...
Collection The Cloisters collection contains approximately five thousand European medieval works of art, with a particular emphasis on pieces dating from the twelfth through the fifteen centuries.
Among the famous works of art held at the Cloisters are seven south Netherlandish tapestries depicting "The Hunt of the Unicorn", Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece, and the Romanesque altar cross known as the "Cloisters Cross" or "Bury St. Edmunds Cross," which was acquired under the curatorship of Thomas Hoving. The Cloisters also holds many medieval manuscripts and illuminated books, including the Limbourg brothers' Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry and Jean Pucelle's book of hours for Jeanne d'Evreux. The Hunt of the Unicorn is a series of seven tapestries dating from 1495–1505. ...
A typical painting attributed to Campin Robert Campin (1378–April 26, 1444) is sometimes considered the first great master of Flemish painting. ...
This page is about the Mérode Altarpiece. ...
Interior of the Saint-Saturnin church St-Sernin, Toulouse, 1080 – 1120: elevation of the east end Romanesque sculpture, cloister of St. ...
Thomas P.F. Hoving (born January 15, 1931), is an American museum executive and consultant and the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ...
Très riches heures du Duc de Berry: Aout (August) (1412-16) Illumination on vellum, 22,5 x 13,6 cm Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry The Limbourg brothers, or in Dutch Gebroeders van Limburg (Herman, Pol, and Jean; 1385. ...
Parisian Gothic era manuscript illuminator, active 1320-1350. ...
A illuminated page from the Très Riches Heures showing the day for exchanging gifts from the month of January A book of hours from the late 1470s. ...
Jeanne dEvreux ( 1310- 1371) was the third wife of King Charles IV of France. ...
 From The Cloisters in New York City. The inscription reads, "Through the Sign of the Holy Cross, from our enemies, our God frees us." The building housing the collection is itself a work of medieval art. It is a composite structure, incorporating elements from five medieval French cloisters: Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Bonnefont-en-Comminges, Trie-en-Bigorre, and Froville. These disassembled European buildings were reassembled in the park (1934/38) setting with gardens planted according to horticultural information culled from various medieval documents and artifacts. Notable works of architecture include the Cuxa cloister, with an adjacent Chapter House; and the Fuentidueña Apse from a chapel in the province of Segovia, (Castilla y León. Spain). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3008x2000, 1607 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Metropolitan Museum of Art The Cloisters Stations of the Cross Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added...
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Cloister of Saint Trophimus, in Arles, France A cloister (from latin claustrum) is a part of cathedral, monastic and abbey architecture. ...
Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa (Catalan: Sant Miquel de Cuixà ) is a Benedictine abbey located on the territory of the commune of Codalet, in the Pyrénées-Orientales département, in southwestern France. ...
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert is a commune of the Hérault département, in southern France. ...
Froville is a village of Lorraine, famous for its romanesque church, with a gothic cloister, part of which was moved to the Cloisters Museum of New York City. ...
History The museum and adjacent park were created thanks to an endowment grant by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who donated the majority of his collection; it was completed in 1938. Much of the art collection came from that of George Grey Barnard, an American sculptor and assiduous collector of medieval art, who had already established a medieval-art museum near his home in the Fort Washington neighborhood. Rockefeller purchased Barnard's entire collection of art and architectural remnants as a gift to the Met; this collection, combined with a number of pieces from Rockefeller's own collection (including the Unicorn tapestries), became the core of the new Cloisters' holdings. Rockefeller subsequently purchased more than 65 acres of land north of Barnard's museum with the intention of converting it into a public park and site for the new museum.[1] Besides purchasing this land and donating it to the city, Rockefeller also purchased and donated to the State of New Jersey several hundred acres of the New Jersey Palisades on the other side of the Hudson River in order to preserve the view for the museum. I took this photo of the Cloisters in New York City, Dec 2004 File links The following pages link to this file: The Cloisters Categories: User-created public domain images ...
I took this photo of the Cloisters in New York City, Dec 2004 File links The following pages link to this file: The Cloisters Categories: User-created public domain images ...
The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its southern terminus, demarcates the border between the states of New York and New Jersey. ...
John D. Rockefeller Jr. ...
George Grey Barnard, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1947 George Grey Barnard (May 24, 1863 - April 24, 1938) was an American sculptor. ...
Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area Ranked 47th - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²) - Width 70 miles (110 km) - Length 150 miles (240 km) - % water 14. ...
Palisades is also a general term for steep cliffs next to a river. ...
 During the winter, potted plants—such as these crocuses—are brought indoors. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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See also New York City is home to hundreds of cultural institutions and historic sites, many of which are internationally known. ...
Summer Internship The Cloisters offers summer internships available to undergraduate students with an interest in art history and medieval studies. The internship regularly garners nearly three hundred applications, interviews roughtly ten percent of those applicants, and hires eight of those interviewed for nine weeks of the summer to study the collection, assist with tours, learn about the workings of the medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum as well as the museum as a whole. The internship is focused toward first- and second-year college students and is particularly desirable in that it offers a substantial honorarium. This article is about the academic discipline of art history. ...
Medievalism is the study of and/or preference for the (European) middle ages. ...
References - ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art website article on the Cloisters
Literature - Peter Barnet and Nancy Wu, The Cloisters. Medieval Art and Architecture. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press. New York: 2006.
- Thomas Hoving. King of the Confessors. Simon & Schuster. New York Yok: 1981.
- Thomas Hoving, King of the Confessors: A New Appraisal. cybereditions.com. Christchurch, NZ: 2001,
- James J. Rorimer, The Cloisters. The Building and the Collection of Mediaeval Art in Fort Tryon Park, 11th edition, New York 1951.
James J. Rorimer (1905–1966), was an American museum curator and the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ...
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