Cloisters: a visit to the Middle Ages

The Boston Globe | November 10, 1991| | Copyright

NEW YORK -- Gray, rainy days are made for museums, and on a recent drizzly visit, I opted to spend Sunday morning in a monastery.

High on a hill overlooking the Hudson River, The Cloisters offers instant immersion into the age of knights, unicorns, stained glass and tapestries rich with spiritual meaning.

A climb up grand steps to an entrance capped by a giant arch is a walk back to the Middle Ages. Soft Gregorian chants playing over an intercom system help set the mood.

A branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters opened in 1938 when John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought a private ...

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