Blessing Bishop statue, The Met Cloisters, New York, USA
Blessing Bishop, St Nicholas of Bari, Italian Gothic sculpture from Umbria, c. 1350a"75, in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. The statue is in painted and gilded wood, and the bishop wears a mitre and a robe with a black orphrey ornamented with a series of quatrefoils and folded drapery forms. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13445513
Media ID
45136649
Size
5921px x 5906px
(9.2MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
