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The Cuxa Cloister



The Cuxa Cloister, mid-12th century
French or Spanish; From the abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa (modern France)
Marble; 90 ft. x 78 ft. (2,743 x 2,377 cm)
The Cloisters Collection, 1925 (25.120.398,.399,.452)

Co-Directors and Co-Producers: Marc Bauman and John Goberman
Camera Person: Don Lenzer
Editors: Cindy Kaplan Rooney and Margaret Noble
Writers: Mary B. Shepard and Susan Morris
Narrator: Philippe de Montebello

Excerpted from Glories of Medieval Art: The Cloisters. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.