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The Cloisters

About The Cloisters

The Cloisters (also known as the Met Cloisters) is a museum in Fort Tryon Park, straddling the neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood, in Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum specializes in European medieval art and architecture, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Governed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it contains a large collection of medieval artworks shown in the architectural settings of French monasteries and abbeys. Its buildings are centered around four cloisters—the Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem, Bonnefont, and Trie-sur-Baïse—that were acquired by American sculptor and art dealer George Grey Barnard in France before 1913 and moved to New York. Barnard's collection was bought for the museum by financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. Other major sources of objects were the collections of J. P. Morgan and Joseph Brummer.

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Art museum
Founded
1938

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Photos of The Cloisters

  1. The Cloisters, New York01New YorkPaweł Drozd on Wiki Drozdpl cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:05, 27 December 2013 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. Inside The Cloisters02Inside The CloistersEgorovaSvetlana · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. Arcade Saint-Guilhem Cloister Benedictine Abbey St-Guilhem-le-Desert The Met Cloisters Gallery03Arcade Saint-Guilhem Cloister Benedictine Abbey St-Guilhem-le-Desert The Met Cloisters GalleryEgorovaSvetlana · CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. The Cuxa Cloister of Benedictine Monastery the Saint-Michel de Cuxa Abbey Catalan Northeast Pyrenees Codalet France Arcaded Walkways Surround Garth Enclosed Courtyard The Judy Black Garden Open to the Sky The Met Cloisters in Gallery04The Cuxa Cloister of Benedictine Monastery the Saint-Michel de Cuxa Abbey Catalan Northeast Pyrenees Codalet France Arcaded Walkways Surround Garth Enclosed Courtyard The Judy Black Garden Open to the Sky The Met Cloisters in GalleryEgorovaSvetlana · CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. Citrus Tree The Cuxa Cloister of Benedictine Monastery the Saint-Michel de Cuxa Abbey Catalan Northeast Pyrenees Codalet France Arcaded Walkways Surround Garth The Judy Black Garden Open to the Sky The Met Cloisters Gallery05Citrus Tree The Cuxa Cloister of Benedictine Monastery the Saint-Michel de Cuxa Abbey Catalan Northeast Pyrenees Codalet France Arcaded Walkways Surround Garth The Judy Black Garden Open to the Sky The Met Cloisters GalleryEgorovaSvetlana · CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. Citrus Tree in The Cuxa Cloister of Benedictine Monastery the Saint-Michel de Cuxa Abbey Catalan Northeast Pyrenees Codalet France Arcaded Walkways Surround Garth The Judy Black Garden Open to the Sky The Met Cloisters Gallery06Citrus Tree in The Cuxa Cloister of Benedictine Monastery the Saint-Michel de Cuxa Abbey Catalan Northeast Pyrenees Codalet France Arcaded Walkways Surround Garth The Judy Black Garden Open to the Sky The Met Cloisters GalleryEgorovaSvetlana · CC BY-SA 4.0

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