Céline Brugeat, 2011–2012 Annette Kade Fellow
Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2012
The Cloisters incorporates significant sculptural ensembles from medieval cloisters from the south of France, traditionally identified as coming from four sites: Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, Trie-en-Bigorre, and Bonnefont-en-Comminges. (Ensembles from a fifth French medieval cloister come from Froville, in northern France.) Bonnefont Cloister includes two galleries that frame a beautiful medieval garden overlooking the Hudson River.
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Eileen Willis, Website Managing Editor
Posted: Monday, July 16, 2012
Genevieve and Alisha write about an intriguing photograph in the exhibition Spies in the House of Art, and nine new posts conclude the blog accompanying Byzantium and Islam, which closed July 8.
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Barbara Drake Boehm, Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters; and Melanie Holcomb, Associate Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Posted: Monday, January 9, 2012
Barbara Drake Boehm, Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters; and Melanie Holcomb, Associate Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Posted: Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Melanie Holcomb, Associate Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters; and Barbara Drake Boehm, Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Posted: Friday, May 6, 2011
Barbara Drake Boehm, Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters; and Melanie Holcomb, Associate Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Posted: Monday, April 18, 2011
Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO
Posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
John D. Rockefeller Jr. once said, "I can think of nothing so unpleasant as a life devoted to pleasure." How extraordinary, then, that he would create perhaps the most idyllic retreat on the island of Manhattan: The Cloisters Museum and Gardens in Fort Tryon Park.
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James Moske, Managing Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Saturday, June 12, 2010
Eighty-five years ago today, on June 12, 1925, The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased a collection of medieval sculpture and architectural fragments from George Grey Barnard (1863–1938), a prominent American sculptor and collector. This acquisition formed the nucleus of what would become The Cloisters, the branch of the Museum located in Northern Manhattan and devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.
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Emma Wegner, Assistant Museum Educator, The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
Posted: Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Since its doors opened in 1938, The Cloisters—the branch of the Met devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—has been beloved not only for its extraordinary collection of medieval art, but also for its gardens.
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Wendy Stein, Research Associate, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Posted: Tuesday, April 6, 2010
We are just a little over a month into the run of The Art of Illumination—the exhibition with the impossibly long subtitle: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Come see it if you haven't already—or if you have, but couldn't get a turn with one of the magnifying glasses we have provided, come back to see the astounding detail in these magical little pictures.
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