Peter Barnet, Michel David-Weil Curator in Charge of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, offers an introduction to The Cloisters, followed by Thomas A. E. Dale's lecture "The Romanesque Cloister: Monastic Ideals and Monstrous Visions in Twelfth-Century Europe."
Recorded March 7, 2004
May 2013 through May 2014 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Cloisters.