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The Cloisters' collection of stained glass consists of around three hundred panels, generally French and Germanic and mostly from the 13th to early 16th centuries. [71] A number are handmade opalescent glass, and most are characterized by vivid colors and often abstract designs and patterns; many have a devotional image as a centerpiece. [72]
Bonnefont Garden at the Cloisters. The Cloisters is a branch of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which houses the institution's collection of Medieval art. Located in Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, The Cloisters opened in 1938. It has been featured and referenced in many works of popular culture since then.
Seated Bishop. Seated Bishop is a lindenwood statue carved by Tilman Riemenschneider.Completed in 1495 during the transition period between late Gothic and Renaissance, it currently resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Cloisters Collection.
The Cloisters, in New York City, has important portions of an early 15th-century tapestry series illustrating the surviving five of the Nine Worthies: King Arthur, Joshua, David, Hector, and Julius Caesar. [9]
The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant is an 1899 painting by John Singer Sargent. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] The painting was hailed by the critics and dubbed “The Three Graces” by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). [2]
The Flemish Hunting Deck, also known as the Cloisters set of fifty-two playing cards and Hofjaren Jachtpakket [dubious – discuss] (in Dutch), is a set of fifty-two playing cards owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States. [1]
Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Tuesday, February 4, 2025The New York Times
The triptych was owned by the aristocratic Belgian Arenberg and Mérode families from 1820 to 1849 before reaching the art market, and has been in the collection of the Cloisters, New York since 1956. Until its acquisition it had been in private collection for many years and thus inaccessible to both scholars and the public.