Sunday, December 14, 2008

Meet Jesus at The Cloisters

The Cloisters Museum, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showcases art from Medieval Europe from the 12th through 15th century. It's an interesting museum...if you're into castles and Christ.


A view of the outside of the Cloisters.


After walking through the entrance, you walk up these steps.


This is the St. Roch, patron of contagious diseases and sexy legs. If you zoom in, you can see a gaping wound on his leg where his left hand is resting. The sign read that the dog licked his wound and cured him...so really, the dog is the saint, right?




Baby Jesus getting a circumcision.



Three freaky looking women who need a tan.


Why would anyone want to kill a unicorn?!


Tombstones.

More tombstones.

A close-up of a stain glass window.

A chapel with tiny seats. People had small butts back then.


I love the details of the doors.

The indoor garden with different types of columns.


More Jesus. There were other rooms full of references to Jesus and and religion but I didn't take pictures of them.

Decoration on a door.


Some monster.

1 comment:

Danielle T Duong said...

What if you're not into Christ? I like MOMA better.