The Cloisters, New York
The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century.
It's hard to believe that you can see and touch walls, stained-glass windows, sculptures and others real things from centures ago.
The building was built in the 1930s resembling architectural elements of several European medieval abbeys. The architect Charles Collens incorporated original medieval elements into the fabric of The Cloisters which opened to the public in 1938. The Cloisters' collection comprises approximately three thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about the ninth to the sixteenth century.
The Cloisters, New York
The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century.
It's hard to believe that you can see and touch walls, stained-glass windows, sculptures and others real things from centures ago.
The building was built in the 1930s resembling architectural elements of several European medieval abbeys. The architect Charles Collens incorporated original medieval elements into the fabric of The Cloisters which opened to the public in 1938. The Cloisters' collection comprises approximately three thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about the ninth to the sixteenth century.