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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.
The Cloisters is a branch of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, ... the year The Cloisters opened, in order to free the unicorn from the Unicorn Tapestries. [1]
The Cloisters, New York Closed view. The Reliquary Shrine is an especially complex 14th century container for relics, now in The Cloisters, New York. It is made from translucent enamel, gilt-silver and paint, and dated to c 1325–50. Although first mentioned in a convent in Budapest, its style and influences indicates French craftsmanship.
Pages in category "The Cloisters" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * The Cloisters; A.
The Cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral, UK. The early medieval cloister had several antecedents: the peristyle court of the Greco-Roman domus, the atrium and its expanded version that served as forecourt to early Christian basilicas, and certain semi-galleried courts attached to the flanks of early Syrian churches. [4]
"The Unicorn Rests in a Garden," also called "The Unicorn in Captivity," is the best-known of the Unicorn Tapestries. [1]The Unicorn Tapestries or the Hunt of the Unicorn (French: La Chasse à la licorne) is a series of seven tapestries made in the South Netherlands around 1495–1505, and now in The Cloisters in New York.
The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.. The grounds of the community are now owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and are administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commissi
The Crucified Christ (MA 2005.274) is a sculpture in walrus ivory, likely from Paris around 1300, now housed in The Cloisters, New York. The sculpture retains traces of paint and gilding . [ 1 ] Despite its small scale, it is crafted in a monumental style. [ 2 ]