The Cloisters

The Cloisters ( the cloisters in French) is an American museum, located at the north of the island of Manhattan to New York. It gathers European medieval cloisters and collections of medieval objects. It belongs to the Metropolitan Museum off Art.

Presentation

The museum is at the edge of the Hudson, at the septentrional end of Manhattan. In the south the Fort Tryon is. The collections are presented in the chronological order: initially the Romanesque art then the Gothic art and finally the beginning of the 16th century.

Cloisters

  • Cloister of Cuxa
It presents beautiful capital X of the 12th century coming from the Abbaye Saint-Michel of Cuxa, in the the Pyrenees. The garden is composed of medieval and modern gasolines.
  • Cloister of Saint-Guilhem

He is composed of various elements of the end of the 12th century coming from the monastery from Saint-Guilhem-the-Desert, in the Herault. One can admire there sculptures of 12th and 13th century coming from France and Italy. The corbels are originating in Our-Lady-of-the-Large-Safe in the Gironde.

  • Cloister of Bonnefont-in-Comminges
This reconstitution of the monastery cistercian of Bonnefont-in-Comminges gives elements of the end of the 13th century and 14th century. The garden of the cloister exposes 250 species of crop plants to the Middle Ages.

  • Cloître of Sorts

It is about a cloister of the 15th century made up of elements coming from the convent Carmelite nun from Sort-in-Bigorre in the Hautes-Pyrénées.

Collections

External bonds

  • The Cloisters (Met Museum)
  • air Visit of “The Cloisters” in Photographs

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