The Cloisters—the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe located in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park—is known chiefly as a repository of medieval Christian art featuring major architectural elements, a treasury of precious liturgical and secular objects, stained glass, and tapestries. Less attention, however, has been focused on the collection of individual sculptures that are, for the most part, independent of architecture. In this publication, William D. Wixom, Chairman of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, focuses upon selected, non-architectural sculptures and with fresh insight stresses the works' underlying purposes and relates them to their original locations. As an essential general background, initial observations are made regarding medieval approaches to images, the range of locations and subjects, patronage, artists, workshops, and stylistic changes, as well as questions of loss, preservation, and quality.

64 pages, 80 illustrations (47 in full color), 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. Paper.


Medieval Sculpture at The Cloisters
04-051694
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