The Cloisters
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The Cloisters is a museum in Fort Tryon Park, straddling the neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood, in Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum specializes in European medieval art and arch
View of the main entrance
George Barnard and Clare Sheridan at his cloister in New York City, 1921
John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1920
Chalice, paten and straw, made of silver, gilded silver, niello and jewels. Münstertal, Black Forest, Germany, c. 1230–50. From the collection of Joseph Brummer
Mérode Altarpiece
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The Mérode Altarpiece is an oil on oak panel triptych, now in The Cloisters in New York. It is unsigned and undated, but attributed to Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin and an assistant. The t
Central panel: 64 × 63 cm; wings: 65 × 27 cm
The Annunciation. The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, version of the central panel, at one time attributed to Jacques Daret, a pupil of Campin's. This panel was painted earlier than the New York version and may be the original.
Detail, centre panel, with table, book of hours, fading candle and vase
Detail with the Virgin reading a book of hours