THE CLOISTERS

                             THE CLOISTER

Introduction: The Cloister is a Metropolitan Museum's branch, locate on the Hudson river in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park which opened to public in 1983.....

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                                      Romanesque Hall (The Cloisters)


  Part of Medieval Art and the Cloisters

          Timeline: Twelth to fifthteen century from Spain...    

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 Fuentidueña Chapel (The Cloisters)

Timeline:The twelth century apse.....            

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        St.  Guilhem

Timeline: twelth-century

Region: France

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                                   Cuxa Cloister (The Cloisters)
Timeline: Twelth-century

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Chapter House from Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut (The Cloisters)

.                        EARLY GOTHIC ART

Timeline: The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries...
Regions:  France, Spanic, and Italy.

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              GOTHIC CHAPEL AND THE CLOISTERS

Timeline: The mid-thirteenth to the fourteenth-century

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                BONNEFONT CLOISTER ( THE CLOISTERS)
Timeline: late thirteenth century
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                 TRIE CLOISTER ( THE CLOISTERS)

                               TREASURY ( THE CLOISTERS)
Timeline:  The eleventh through fifteenth centuries
Region: French
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                  BOPPA GALLERY (THE CLOISTERS)
The gallery takes its name from the six large, stained-glass windows that come from the Carmelite church of Boppard on the Rhine near Koblenz that date from 1440–46.
Nearby is a large mid-fifteenth-century Aragonese alabaster altar predella, or base, along with an imposing copper-alloy eagle lectern. Large-scale sculptures include the central shrines of two altarpieces. Tapestry hangings, Spanish lusterware, aquamanilia, and fine examples of German late Gothic silversmiths' work are also featured.

                    UNICORN TAPES TRY HALL (THE CLOISTERS)
Seven world-famous tapestries depicting The Hunt of the Unicorn adorn this gallery. Against a landscape richly woven with lush flora and fauna, the mythical beast, possessed of magic powers, tries in vain to escape the men and dogs that pursue him. A large fireplace evokes the kind of aristocratic setting in which these tapestries, first recorded in Paris in 1680, originally would have been situated.                       NINE HEROES GALLARY (THE CLOISTERS)
A series of tapestries devoted to Nine Heroes of the Middle Ages celebrated in a fourteenth-century poem dominate the room. From the original ensemble, five survive: David and Joshua of Hebrew scripture; Hector and Julius Caesar from Classical tradition; and Arthur, the legendary king of England.
Thought once to have belonged to Jean of France, Duke of Berry, these are among the earliest tapestries to survive from the Middle Ages.


                           MERODE ROOM ( THE CLOISTERS)
The room features the famed Early Netherlandish masterpiece the Annunciation Triptych, also known as the Merode Altarpiece, after its previous owner. The wings—including the donor and his wife and Joseph in his workshop—surround the central panel of the Annunciation.
Reflecting the function of this altarpiece, many of the other works of art in the room were intended as aids to private devotion, including a miniature carved and painted altarpiece and a mother-of-pearl triptych. The decorative feature is a fifteenth-century Spanish painted ceiling.



                          LATE GOTHIC HALL ( THE CLOISTERS)