THE CLOISTERS : The Building and Art Collection of Medieval Art in Fort Trylon Park (3rd Revised & Enlarged Edition)

Rorimer, James J. (Revised w/Margaret B. Freeman)

ISBN 10: 0870990500 / ISBN 13: 9780870990502

Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1963

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Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated cover/VG w/light edge wear. Same po name to fep & front & back covers. First published 1938, this is the vintage 1963 3rd Edition (published w/o ISBN; ISBN assigned to latter printings). Medieval sculpture & architectural fragments collected since 1914 and made public byfrom George Grey Barnard's (1863 - 1938), and, acquired & contributed to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1925. Housed at Fort Tryon Park, Upper Manhattan, N.Y. Building designed by Boston architect Charles Collens (1873 - 1956) in 2 levels. It's medieval gardens, chapels & Gothic rooms evoke European monastic life, named "The Cloisters". Map of Europe to endpapers w/original sites of objects exhibited. 212 pgs, b/w photos, in 22 essays follow the Introduction.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE CLOISTERS : The Building and Art Collection of Medieval Art in Fort Trylon Park (3rd Revised & Enlarged Edition)
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870990500
• ISBN 13: 9780870990502
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Revised & Enlarged Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine Arts, Art History, Art Criticism
  • Manual, Guide, Handbook
  • *photographed by our in-house photographer
  • Museums, Catalogues, Exhibitions

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PB book