#Met Cloisters

[fantasysheart]

Met Cloisters

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TextileTuesday :

Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion

Made in Scandinavia (possibly Sweden), c.1500

Wool intarsia & applique with gilt leather & linen embroidery

52 3/4 × 52 3/8 in. (134 × 133 cm)

The Met Cloisters 2011.430

“This textile features a combination of real and imaginary creatures. The inscription, only partially legible and apparently mixing Latin and Italian, invokes the name of Christ and the Church, indicating the cloth’s original use in a religious context.”

[cypressure]

cloisters at sunset

[stegodandy]

Some pieces i did at the Met Cloisters! (With Nick and Miles added ofc)

[kourotrophos]

The Cloisters Playing Cards

1475-80 A.D., South Netherlandish, paper with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold

[voluptuarian]

Christmas at the Met Cloisters

[yiddishknights]

I went to the Met Cloisters today and saw, among many lovely medieval things, a 14th century ivory box where someone had scenes from all their favorite romances engraved on the sides. There were panels featuring Galahad, Lancelot, and Gawain, and I have genuinely never wanted to own an object from a museum so badly.

[yiddishlore]

Black Magus, Germany, 15th century. Photo by me.

From the Met Cloisters.

[foxes-library]

Arch with Beasts, French, c. 1150-75. On view at The Met Cloisters.

I really like how close these carvings look to contemporary bestiary illustrations--it's obvious there was a lot of cross-pollination between these artists.

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[surr0unds]

the cloisters

[artschoolglasses]

Drying plants at the Met Cloisters

New York City, United States

[nonesuchrecords]

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs 12th-century trobairitz (female troubadour) Almucs de Castelneau's "Dame Iseut," from her Grammy-nominated new album, Mélusine, accompanied by Sullivan Fortner on harpsichord and Keita Ogawa on percussion, in the Unicorn Tapestries Room at The Met Cloisters in a new video out now as part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s performance series, MetLiveArts. This is the third of three performances Salvant filmed in the Met’s Unicorn Tapestry galleries of songs from the album.

[art-collecteur]

A peasant going to the market Italian, 1470–1480

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/826950

[annafromuni]

A New View into Dark Academia with The Cloisters

The Cloisters by Katy Hays dips into a new side of dark academia for me, one which has spurred a wave of curiosity from deep within, and that is art history. Art history is one of those subject that I wanted to take at school but my subject choices didn’t align right for that to happen so getting that art history immersion through Ann (just one letter off!) and this mesmerising read was truly a…

[raulasniteonearth]

Trip to the Met Cloisters (c)

[alterations]

new york city on film