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Coucher de soleil vu de Cap Canaille
Un phénomène de réfraction atmosphérique qui ralentie le coucher du soleil
Ce phénomène observé près de l'horizon déplace l'image plus haut sur l’horizon, ce spectacle apparait deux fois par an lors du coucher du soleil au dessus de pic de Canigou de massif des Pyrénées et il est visible depuis le Cap Canaille près de La Ciotat et Cassis
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Cuxa Cloister, c1130–40
Marble
The Benedictine monastery of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, located at the foot of Mount Canigou in the northeast Pyrenees, was founded in 878. In 1791, Cuxa's monks departed in the wake of the French Revolution, and much of the monastery's stonework was subsequently dispersed. The monastery's cloister, built during the twelfth century, originally measured some 156 by 128 feet, or approximately twice its current size at The Cloisters, much of whose architecture is modern. Like the ensemble from Saint-Guilhem, elements were purchased by George Grey Barnard and brought to the United States; part of the cloister survives at the monastery which, once again, houses a community of monks.
The cloister was the heart of a monastery. By definition, it consists of a covered walkway surrounding a large open courtyard, with access to all other monastic buildings. Usually attached to the southern flank of the church, a cloister was at the same time passageway and processional walkway, a place for meditation and for reading aloud. At once serene and bustling, the cloister was also the site where the monks washed their clothes and themselves.
The warm beauty of the native pink marble used at Cuxa harmonizes this cloister's many elements, such as the varied capital sculptures carved during different periods in its construction. Some of these are fashioned in the simplest of block forms, while others are intricately carved with scrolling leaves, pinecones, animals with two bodies and a common head (a special breed for the corners of capitals), lions devouring people or their own forelegs, or a mermaid holding her tail. While many of these motifs may derive from popular fables or depict the struggle between the forces of good and evil, the conveyance of meaning seems to have been less important for the Cuxa artists than the creation of powerful works capturing the energy and tension between the forms depicted.
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The Met Cloisters, Washington Heights
An extension of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the building references French monasteries and abbeys, and incorporates four cloisters acquired in 1913 - Bonnefont, the Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem, and Trie. The building was designed by Charles Collens and resides in Fort Tryon Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr and the Olmsted Brothers; construction began in 1934, the building and gardens opened in 1938. The Cloisters were commissioned by John D Rockefeller Jr as an extension to the Metropolitan Museum, to hold a collection he had purchased from George Grey Barnard in 1925 (including elements from abbeys in Sant Miquel de Cuixà, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Bonnefont-en-Comminges, Trie-sur-Baïse and Froville), a collection boosted by donations from JP Morgan and Joseph Brummer.
Taken in Manhattan