Cuxa Cloister, Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters
Rudolph Ruzicka American, born Czechoslovakia
Not on view
One year after the Cloisters opened in Fort Tryon Park, Ruzicka made this color woodcut, one of three that respond to garden cloisters within the new building devoted to Medieval art. He carved three separate woodblocks and printed each in a different color to represent the garden of a cloister represent the cloister of the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, located at the foot of Mount Canigou in the northeast Pyrenees, founded in 878. The other two prints relate to the Trie and Bonnefont cloisters (39.23.7 and 39.23.16).
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