**THE CLOISTERS MUSEUM AND GARDENS IN NORTHERN MANHATTAN

The Cloisters Museum and Gardens In Northern Manhattan

 

The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The Cloisters itself was assembled from architectural elements that date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century. Located in a spectacular four-acre setting overlooking the Hudson River with views of the George Washington Bridge, the building incorporates elements from five medieval cloisters—Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Bonnefont-en-Comminges, Trie-en-Bigorre, and Froville—and from other monastic sites located in southern France. It opened to the public in 1938. The building and its cloistered gardens—located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan—are treasures in themselves, effectively part of the collection housed there. The Cloisters’ collection comprises approximately three thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about the ninth to the sixteenth century. Follow this link for additional history of the Cloisters.

A view of the Cloisters

G.W. bridge

Garden

Garden

Fruit trees in garden

Pear Tree

Architectural elements

Architectural elements

Architectural elements

Architectural elements

Architectural elements

Pierced Foot Beaker 1500

Colorless glass beaker with applied decoration, Germany or Switzerland, Late 13th- early 14th C

Beaker 13-14th C

Pilgrim Bottle first third of 16th C.

Maigelein beaker from Germany late 15th C

Maigelein beaker from Germany late 15th C

Tall Maigelein beaker from Germany late 15th C

Glass beaker with applied decoration from German lower Rhine valley early 16th C

Krautstrunk beaker from Germany or The Netherlands 1480-1510

Large Krautstrunk beaker from Germany or The Netherlands 1480-1510

Small Krautstrunk beaker from Germany or The Netherlands 1480-1510

Krautstrunk beaker from Germany or The Netherlands 1480-1510

Biconical glass bottle from Germany City of Maniz late 15th C

Glass bowl with enamel decoration from Venice Italy early 16th C

stained glass window