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Margaret B. Freeman (1899 – 24 May 1980) was an American art historian who was the head curator of The Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to medieval art and architecture, from 1955 to 1965. She studied medieval tapestries as well as the use of plants in medieval art.
The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum, situated in Fort Tryon Park , specializes in European medieval art and architecture , with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods.
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Jean de Cambrai (died 1438), Medieval art : page 389; Robert Campin (1375–1444), The Cloisters : page 405; Canaletto (1697–1768), European paintings : page 188; Antonio Canova (1757–1822), European sculpture and decorative arts : page 265; Martin Carlin (ca. 1730–1785), European sculpture and decorative arts : page 276
Limewood with paint, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Saint Barbara is a sculpture statuette in limewood with paint, completed by an unknown, probably German, artist in Strasbourg, Alsace, in present-day France, around 1490. This representation of the early Christian martyr Saint Barbara is today in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
The medieval collection in the main Metropolitan building, centered on the first-floor medieval gallery, contains about 6,000 separate objects. While a great deal of European medieval art is on display in these galleries, most of the European pieces are concentrated at the Cloisters (see below).
Medieval monuments at the Cloisters as they were and as they are. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. ISBN 978-0-8709-9027-4; Rorimer, James J. "The Apse from San Martin at Fuentidueña". New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 19.10, 1961; Young, Bonnie. A walk through the Cloisters. New York: Viking Press, 1979.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ... "Medieval Sculpture at The Cloisters". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, volume 46, no. 3, Winter, 1988–1989