Thanks for the video. The Cloisters was one of my favorite "hangouts" when I lived in NY. I am now 75 y/o , homebound, and am thrilled that I can visit. Again, Thank you. Petra I. Hernandez
A cloister (from Latin: claustrum, "enclosure") is an open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries, with open arcades on the inner side, running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a warm southern flank, usually indicates that it is (or once was) part of a monastic foundation, "forming a continuous and solid architectural barrier... that effectively separates the world of the monks from that of the serfs and workmen, whose lives and works went on outside and around the cloister." Cloistered (or claustral) life is also another name for the life of a monk or nun in the enclosed religious orders; the modern English term enclosure is used in contemporary Catholic church law translations to mean cloistered, and some form of the Latin parent word "claustrum" is frequently used as a metonymic name for monastery in languages such as German. Historically, the early medieval cloister had several antecedents, the peristyle court of the Greco-Roman domus, the atrium and its expanded version that served as forecourt to early Christian basilicas, and certain semi-galleried courts attached to the flanks of early Syrian churches. Walter Horn suggests that the earliest coenobitic communities, which were established in Egypt by Saint Pachomius, did not result in cloister construction, as there were no lay serfs attached to the community of monks, thus no separation within the walled community was required; Horn finds the earliest prototypical cloisters in some exceptional late fifth-century monastic churches in southern Syria, such as the Convent of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, at Umm-is-Surab (AD 489), and the colonnaded forecourt of the convent of Id-Dêr, but nothing similar appeared in the semieremitic Irish monasteries' clustered roundhouses nor in the earliest Benedictine collective communities of the West. In the time of Charlemagne the requirements of a separate monastic community within an extended and scattered manorial estate created this "monastery within a monastery" in the form of the locked cloister, an architectural solution allowing the monks to perform their sacred tasks apart from the distractions of laymen and servants. Horn offers as early examples Abbot Gundeland's "Altenmünster" of Lorsch abbey (765-74), as revealed in the excavations by Frederich Behn; Lorsch was adapted without substantial alteration from a Frankish nobleman's villa rustica, in a tradition unbroken from late Roman times. Another early cloister, that of the abbey of Saint-Riquier (790-99), took a triangular shape, with chapels at the corners, in conscious representation of the Trinity. A square cloister sited against the flank of the abbey church were built at Inden (816) and the abbey of St. Wandrille at Fontenelle (823-33). At Fulda, a new cloister (819) was sited to the liturgical west of the church "in the Roman manner" familiar from the forecourt of Old St. Peter's Basilica because it would be closer to the relics.
Did France existed in the Middle Ages???.... Fuentidueña is northern of Madrid , the catalan Pyrenees ... But FRANCE existed always... even Sant Miquel de Cuxa in the Catalan country northern of the Pyrenees is french.. jajajaj
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Thanks for the video. The Cloisters was one of my favorite "hangouts" when I lived in NY. I am now 75 y/o , homebound, and am thrilled that I can visit. Again, Thank you. Petra I. Hernandez
Me too - and I'm 74. I miss hanging out in The Cloisters.
I lived just off 181st near the GW. So often I loved to be in the park and the Cloisters. Hey neighbor.
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Superb video.I could listen to M. Montebello forever, such knowledge and delivered with impeccable speech and soothing voice. Thanks!
and he would love to jabber away forever
True
Terrific video of a beautiful place. My visit there will always be a wonderful memory. Thank you.
MOST INTERESTING NARRATIVE AND VISUAL BEAUTY.....BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD. Thank you.
Mine, too!
I also.love the fact that it never changes!
Took my daughter there yesterday. Amazing!
The Met make some superb films and this is no exception. Thank you!
😮😊glorious , and very well presented ! Thank you .
Fantasticdocumentary. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
I wanna go badly. such a beautiful place. thanks for the video Met. :)
Love this where did we go wrong in the1900,s and 2000,s hope we get back on track again
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VISUALLY RUSTIC..... YET CELEBRATING LIFE IN ALL ITS GRANDURE .....BEAUTIFUL!!!!
very nice. thx.
If I could only afford to see this. ♡
Nice upload!
This man is truly Dracula, and this place is mesmerizing
It's because it's where they keep the holy grail
Thank you for taking mree into this middleage buties
I wanna go again
the quality is not great a pity, otherwise interesting the history behind its building
A cloister (from Latin: claustrum, "enclosure") is an open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries, with open arcades on the inner side, running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a warm southern flank, usually indicates that it is (or once was) part of a monastic foundation, "forming a continuous and solid architectural barrier... that effectively separates the world of the monks from that of the serfs and workmen, whose lives and works went on outside and around the cloister."
Cloistered (or claustral) life is also another name for the life of a monk or nun in the enclosed religious orders; the modern English term enclosure is used in contemporary Catholic church law translations to mean cloistered, and some form of the Latin parent word "claustrum" is frequently used as a metonymic name for monastery in languages such as German.
Historically, the early medieval cloister had several antecedents, the peristyle court of the Greco-Roman domus, the atrium and its expanded version that served as forecourt to early Christian basilicas, and certain semi-galleried courts attached to the flanks of early Syrian churches. Walter Horn suggests that the earliest coenobitic communities, which were established in Egypt by Saint Pachomius, did not result in cloister construction, as there were no lay serfs attached to the community of monks, thus no separation within the walled community was required; Horn finds the earliest prototypical cloisters in some exceptional late fifth-century monastic churches in southern Syria, such as the Convent of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, at Umm-is-Surab (AD 489), and the colonnaded forecourt of the convent of Id-Dêr, but nothing similar appeared in the semieremitic Irish monasteries' clustered roundhouses nor in the earliest Benedictine collective communities of the West.
In the time of Charlemagne the requirements of a separate monastic community within an extended and scattered manorial estate created this "monastery within a monastery" in the form of the locked cloister, an architectural solution allowing the monks to perform their sacred tasks apart from the distractions of laymen and servants. Horn offers as early examples Abbot Gundeland's "Altenmünster" of Lorsch abbey (765-74), as revealed in the excavations by Frederich Behn; Lorsch was adapted without substantial alteration from a Frankish nobleman's villa rustica, in a tradition unbroken from late Roman times. Another early cloister, that of the abbey of Saint-Riquier (790-99), took a triangular shape, with chapels at the corners, in conscious representation of the Trinity. A square cloister sited against the flank of the abbey church were built at Inden (816) and the abbey of St. Wandrille at Fontenelle (823-33). At Fulda, a new cloister (819) was sited to the liturgical west of the church "in the Roman manner" familiar from the forecourt of Old St. Peter's Basilica because it would be closer to the relics.
Sant Miquel de Cuixà was art from Catalonia, now occupied by France since 1659
du vol de patrimoine
从博尔赫斯borges的诗歌里面知道了这个博物馆
Did France existed in the Middle Ages???.... Fuentidueña is northern of Madrid , the catalan Pyrenees ... But FRANCE existed always... even Sant Miquel de Cuxa in the Catalan country northern of the Pyrenees is french.. jajajaj
The music is disappointingly unhistorical.