On a rainy Sunday, we decided to visit The Cloisters, part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Washington Heights. The grounds, structure and collection are inspirational: a stone fortress filled with stylized Medieval art and craft. Astoundingly, we never gave much thought to stained glass when we happen upon it in our journeys, but with even limited light yesterday, these 15th century works illuminated the stone rooms with color; their figures taking on an unearthly glow.
A chamber of art and sculpture from the Middle Ages at The Cloisters
The Virgin of the Apocalypse, Germany, approx. 1480
The Circumcision
Man of Sorrows [detail], Master of Launtenbourg, Rhineland, approx. 1480
Man of Sorrows
Mourning Virgin [detail], Master of Lautenbourg, Rhineland, approx. 1480
Mourning Virgin
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