A Space Apart: The Met’s Cloisters

Far in the northern reaches of the city, nearly out of the reach of traffic and industry, of cement and steel and flashing lights—the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cloisters are a space apart, a solace, and a reprieve.
A Space Apart: The Met’s Cloisters
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CHAPTER HOUSE: A 12th century chapter house from the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame at Pontaut. (Tara MacIsaac/The Epoch Times)