| The Cloisters - described by German Bazin, former director of the Musee du Louvre in Paris, as "the crowning achievement of American museology" - is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloisters - quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passegeway, or arcade - and from other monastic sites in southern France. |
