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Tag Archives: medieval art
Arles Revisited
Fifty years ago, when my children were eight and ten, they, my mom and I drove from Oxford, England to Rome. We had a week to cover a thousand miles via Europe’s then old, double-lane, tree-lined highways. The trip was … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, arles, art, art museums, cafe de la nuit, church of st trophime, cloisters, cloitre de le saint trophime, europe, european art, france, medieval architecture, medieval art, metropolitan museum of art, new york, new york city, provence, rhone river, road trips, roman architecture, Saint Guilhem-le-Désert, saint trophime, travel, trophimus, van gogh, vincent van gogh, yale art gallery
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Radiant Light: The Ancestors of Christ at the Cloisters
To help The Cloisters, the medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, celebrate its seventy-fifth birthday, Canterbury Cathedral, founded in 597 CE, lent it six stained glass panels from its Ancestors of Christ Cycle, dating from 1178 CE. They will … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey of saint germain des pres, american art, ancestors of christ, art, art museums, canterbury cathedral, childebert, james t. hubbell, king childebert, lamech, medieval art, medieval stained glass windows, methuselah, metropolitan museum of art, mosaics, nyc exhibits, nyc museums, radiant light, riverside church, saint vincent, saint vincent of saragossa, stained glass, stained glass windows, the cloisters, union church in pocantico hills
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Branching: Thoughts of an Ever-Curious Author 