The Cloisters Museum of Medieval Art

[arbonac]

The images are cool but the background music is just irritating!

[AnneAnymouse]

Really lovely. Thank you so much for taking the time to produce and share this.

[gipcambero]

All that should go back to France one day

[miltonsava]

The Cloisters incorporates several medieval buildings that( were purchased) in Europe, brought to the United States, and reassembled, often stone by stone.

[historyofpainters]

beautiful video! thanks for sharing.

[acerb45666555]

im kind of happy that all most people see here is artwork and architecture. for, if they knew the darker things of old europe, they would have nightmares for a month!

[itsmwahhh123]

what song is played at the beginning?

[Allornon]

called Fastcar by tracy chapman

[Steadno]

cool!

[a192589]

I was just there 2 weeks ago on a field trip. I saw the unicorn tapestries, and now... unicorns rock my sox! jk It was honestly a very nice museum. I really enjoyed it. especially the cloisters themselves.

[Nlaci512]

It is a lovely video, however I am missing the world-famous Unicorn tapestries from it.

In the middle ages, when films, TV, even a simple black and white printed picture was not available, tapestry played the role of the films. Tapestries were huge, like wall-paintings (fresco) but could be transported easily, as a textile. Many people worked on tapestries, even tapestry making "cities" were founded e.g. in Paris, like Hollywood for film making.

Be proud of your Unicorn tapestries!

[cgeo5150]

There was some stuff last year (or the year before)that was supposedly stolen that was in the MET that they had to give back to Italy. Curators buy what they can for as little as possible...back before they could track these articles there was a lot more stolen pieces of art landing in a lot of museums. Its less prevalent now, I think.

[WonderWomanUS]

i'm sure she didnt, neither did I.

[mrpinilla]

I don´t know if you knew that mos of the collection of the cloisters museum as well as the MET are stolen, robbed or cheated works of art.

you should be proud ot it

[emtyhanded]

actually they werent stolen, there were taken from abandened monestaries in the 19th century by an artist that was interested in midevil art. Its not stolen if was no longer owned by anyone and left to rot and be unappreciated.

[mrpinilla]

actually they were bought at an insignificant price in the boundaries of legality. it was a proper expolium. and I can tell you that some of them were indeed stolen. just find out what happened with the grill of the cathedral of valladolid, whixh is now in the MET. or tiepolo's cartoons for the royal palace of madrid, which I can tell you was not rot at all.