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4 The Cloisters Museum

This world-famous museum of medieval Tomb Effigy of
art resides in a building constructed Jean d’Alluye
This tomb immortalizes
between 1934 and 1938, incorporating the 13th-century
medieval cloisters, chapels, and halls French crusader.
transported from Europe and rebuilt here.
Sculptor George Grey Barnard founded the Langon
museum in 1914; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Chapel
funded the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Pontaut
1925 purchase of the collection and Chapter
donated the site at Fort Tryon Park and the House
land on the New Jersey side of the Hudson
River, directly across from The Cloisters.
Gothic
Chapel
. Unicorn Tapestries
The set of beautiful
tapestries, woven in the
Netherlands around
1500, depicts the quest
and capture of the
mythical unicorn.

Key
Exhibition space
Non-exhibition space

Gothic
Chapel

Bonnefort Cloister

Glass
Gallery

Boppard Stained-Glass
Lancets (1440–47)
Below the lancet of St. Catherine, Trie
angels display the arms of the Coopers’ Cloister
Guild, of which Catherine was patron.

. Annunciation
Triptych (c.1425)
The Campin Room is the
location of this small Robert
Campin of Tournai triptych, a
magnificent example of early
Netherlandish painting.

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