Romanesque Hall, The Met Cloisters, New York, USA

Romanesque Hall, with Doorway (centre) from the monastery of Moutiers-Saint-Jean, Burgundy, France, founded by the first Christian kings of France, Clovis and his son Clothar, c. 1250, in the Romanesque Hall of 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. A statue of Clovis is on the left of the doorway, and Clothar on the right. The tympanum depicts the coronation of the Virgin in Heaven. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13445370

Media ID

45134267

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7087px x 4631px (6.8MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen