New York: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters, October 2009

I’m uploading photos to this gallery in batches: there are more photos to come…

Inside the Temple of Dendur. (Met.)

(Five photos stitched together.)
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The key/description for the panoramic painting of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles (next photo). (Met.)
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‘Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles’ (1818–19) by John Vanderlyn (1775–1852). I have previously written about this painting elsewhere, where you can also zoom in and out and drag the picture around in 360º. (Met.)
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View from the roof garden of the Met. over Central Park towards Midtown Manhattan. (Met.)
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Visitors in the European painting galleries. (Met.)
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An empty gallery at the Met. (Met.)
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Women in coloured head-scarves look at the black-hatted woman in Henry Lerolle’s (1848–1929) ‘The Organ Rehearsal’ (by 1885). (Met.)
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Photographing Vincent van Gogh’s (1853–90) ‘Self-portrait with a straw hat’ (1887). (Met.)
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The books and cards section of the enormous Metropolitan Museum of Art Store. (Met.)
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Looking from Fort Tryon Park (close to the Cloisters) over the Hudson River to New Jersey.
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The outside of the Cloisters. (Cloisters)
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Crucifix and stucco dome inside the Fuentidueña Apse (Spanish, c. 1175–1200), from the church of San Martín at Fuentidueña, near Segovia. (Cloisters)
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The Fuentidueña Apse (Spanish, c. 1175–1200), from the church of San Martín at Fuentidueña, near Segovia. (Cloisters)
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One of the cloisters in the Cloisters. (Cloisters)
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Limestone doorway from the abbey of Moutiers-St-Jean, near Dijon (c. 1250). (Cloisters)
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One of the statues guarding the limestone doorway from the abbey of Moutiers-St-Jean, near Dijon (c. 1250). (Cloisters)
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The Langon chapel from the choir of the church of Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon, near Bordeaux (after 1126). (Cloisters)
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The altar of the Langon chapel from the choir of the church of Notre-Dame-du-Bourg at Langon, near Bordeaux (after 1126). (Cloisters)
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One of the cloisters in the Cloisters. (Cloisters)
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The Gothic chapel of the Cloisters. (Cloisters)
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A tomb in the Gothic chapel. (Cloisters)
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German tourists look at stained glass in the Gothic chapel. (Cloisters)
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A woman looks at a mid-15th-century polyptych featuring the Nativity (S. Lowlands, Brabant, Brussels area). (Cloisters)
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‘Scenes from the Life of St Augustine’ (c. 1490) by the Master of St Augustine (South Lowlands, Flanders, Bruges).
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A cloistered courtyard. (Cloisters)
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Standing statue of the Virgin and Child (c. 1470), attr. to Niclaus Gerhaert von Leiden (perhaps Viennese, fl. 1460–73). (Cloisters)
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Ivory Altar Cross (English, c. 1150–60) and ivory plaque depicting Christ before the High Priest Caiaphas (English, c. 1150–75). (Cloisters)
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Panels with the Crucifixion and the Lamentation by the Master of the Codex of St George (Florentine, fl. in Avignon c. 1320–35). (Cloisters)
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Depiction of the Lamentation from central Spain, c. 1480. (Cloisters)
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A chapel in the Cloisters. (Cloisters)
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Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece, c. 1427–32) by the Workshop of Robert Campin (Southern Netherlands, Tournai). (Cloisters)
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Two stained-glass windows: the adoration of the Magi (1507) by the Circle of the Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft (active in southern and central Germany c. 1470–1500), and the circumciscion (c. 1460–70) by the Kreussbrüder (Cologne). (Cloisters)
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The ‘Man of Sorrows’ fresco (c. 1370) by Niccolò di Tommaso (fl. 1343–76) from Florence. (Cloisters)
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Window into the Gothic chapel. (Cloisters)
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One of the cloisters in the Cloisters. (Cloisters)
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Scenes from the life of St Andrew (c. 1420–30), attr. to the Master of Roussillon (Catalonia). Said to have come from a church at Perpignan. (Cloisters)
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