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James Joseph Rorimer [1] (September 7, 1905 – May 11, 1966), was an American museum curator and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was a primary force behind the creation of the Cloisters, a branch of the museum dedicated to the art and architecture of Medieval Europe.
The Landmark Office Towers is a complex of three historically renovated 1930-completed 259 foot 22 story high-rises that are located on the property of Tower City Center in Downtown Cleveland's Public Square district. [1] The building features very deep recesses on its south side. Actually, the building is three towers in one.
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.
Cloisters Museum, Manhattan, New York City, built 1938 is a part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and contains exhibitions on European medieval art. Coe Hall, Oyster Bay, New York, built for William Robertson Coe on his Planting Fields estate from 1915 to 1919.
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 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).
The collections and scope of the Decorative Arts department so greatly expanded that after Breck’s death in 1933 it was divided into three departments: Renaissance and Modern Art, Medieval Art, and the American Wing. [1] [2] In 1932, Joseph Breck was named the first director of the new branch of the Metropolitan Museum, The Cloisters. Though ...
The AECOM Building, [1] formerly known as the Penton Media Building, and the Bond Court Building, [2] is a commercial high-rise building in Cleveland, Ohio. The building rises 253 feet (77 m) in Downtown Cleveland. [3] It contains 21 floors, and was completed in 1972. [4]