The Met Cloisters, New York, USA
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 collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. The building was designed by Charles Collens and encompasses 4 original cloisters, Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem, Bonnefont and Trie, which were dismantled in Europe and reassembled here. Seen here is the bell tower of the Cuxa cloister, from the Benedictine Abbey of Sant Miquel de Cuixa on Mount Canigou in the French Pyrenees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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13445463
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45135597
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5232px x 7087px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
