Treasury, The Met Cloisters, New York, USA

Treasury, with wood panelled walls and displays of precious artefacts, 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 panelling comprises 37 oak carved scenes of the lives of the Virgin and of Christ, in Flamboyant Gothic style, from the royal abbey of Jumieges, Normandy, France. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Cloisters Flamboyant Heights Jumieges Panelling Treasury Tryon

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