Original Giclée Prints
by Brian Skinner
Dream Blankets Masks Male Images Fort Tryon The Cloisters Works-in-Progress Catalogues
The Cloisters described by Germain Bazin, former director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, as "the crowning achievement of American museology" is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloistersquadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcadeand from other monastic sites in southern France. Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals. Approximately five thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about A.D. 800, with particular emphasis on the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, are exhibited in this unique and sympathetic context.
Dream Blankets Masks Male Images Fort Tryon The Cloisters Works-in-Progress Catalogues
The Cloisters Series Catalogue