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===== The Cloisters museum and gardens =====
{{Main|The Cloisters}}
[[File:The Cloisters Hudson River crop.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|[[The Cloisters]] from the Hudson River]]
[[File:The Cloisters - The MET Cloisters - Joy of Museums - 2.jpg|thumb|Interior of the Cloisters]]
The Cloisters was a principal project of [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]], a major benefactor of the Met. Located in [[Fort Tryon Park]] and completed in 1938, it is a separate building dedicated solely to medieval art. The Cloisters collection was originally that of a separate museum, assembled by [[George Grey Barnard]] and acquired ''in toto'' by Rockefeller in 1925 as a gift to the Met.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cloisters Museum and Gardens |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/history-of-the-museum/the-cloisters-museum-and-gardens |publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415030814/http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/history-of-the-museum/the-cloisters-museum-and-gardens |archive-date=April 15, 2012 }}</ref>

The Cloisters are so named on account of the five medieval French [[cloisters]] whose salvaged structures were incorporated into the modern building, and the five thousand objects at the Cloisters are strictly limited to medieval European works.<ref>{{cite book|last2=Suda|first2=Alexandra|last1=Ellis|first1=Lisa|title=Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures |year=2016|publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario|location=Ontario, Canada|isbn=978-1-89424-390-2|page=89}}</ref> The collection features items of outstanding beauty and historical importance; among these are the ''[[Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry]]'' illustrated by the [[Limbourg Brothers]] in 1409,<ref>{{cite book |last=Husband |first=Timothy |title=The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry|year=2008 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|location=New York |isbn=978-1-58839-294-7|page=x}}</ref> the [[Romanesque art|Romanesque]] altar cross known as the "[[Cloisters Cross]]" or "Bury Cross",<ref>{{cite book|last1=Barnet|first1=Peter|last2=Wu|first2=Nancy Y.|title=The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture|year=2005|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|location=New York|isbn=978-1-58839-176-6|url=https://archive.org/details/cloistersmedieva00barn/page/57|page=[https://archive.org/details/cloistersmedieva00barn/page/57 57]}}</ref> and the seven [[tapestry|tapestries]] depicting the [[The Hunt of the Unicorn|Hunt of the Unicorn]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bolton|first=Andrew|title=Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven, CT|year=2018|isbn=978-1-58839-645-7|page=294}}</ref>

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