[MR] Wikipedia: Cuixà Abbey and The Cloisters Museum

[Garth Groff and Sally Sanford]

Noble Friends,

Today's featured picture on Wikipedia is of Cuixa Abbey. This foundation
has an interesting history as being in both Spain and France, and home to
Cistercians and Benedictines. Parts of the building were shipped to the US
and formed the nucleus of The Cloisters art museum in New York.

For more about Cuixa Abbey see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa . A separate
site shows computer models of the abbey. The imbedded YouTube film clip
shows the abbey's central grounds, and is quite instructive, though you can
get pretty dizzy as it spins around (Think of it as a medieval thrill
ride.): http://abbaye-cuxa.com/index.php/presentation/?lang=en

Portions of the then-derelict abbey were acquired by American sculptor and
art dealer George Grey Barnard and were used to build what later became The
Cloisters, now part of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. More about
The Cloisters see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloisters . The
Cloisters' own web site is at https://metmuseum.org/visit/met-cloisters .
Also note that The Cloisters digital collections can be searched at
https://metmuseum.org/visit/met-cloisters . Finally, note that the film THE
GLORIES OF MEDIEVAL ART: THE CLOISTERS is available on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUlK0neLq8A .

Yours Aye,

Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆