Rev. Joyce, Daisy, Larry, Randy, Christine and Theresa
A 16th century Calvaire with fountain stands at the center of the Trie Cloister medieval garden at the Cloisters Museum.
Arm Reliquary, c. 1230
Body-part reliquaries were uniquely shaped containers used in the Middle Ages to hold the remains of saint’s limbs, including their hands, feet, and heads.
Parish Life
Man of Sorrows
Niccolò di Tommaso (Florence, active 1343–1376)Fresco, c. 1370
Pair of Ewers, Germany (probably Nuremberg), late 15th Century
As part of Parish Life, a small group assembled this summer for a trip to the Cloister Museum in Fort Tryon, NY (part of the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Avenue, NYC). The Reverend Joyce McGirr instructed us in the various time periods from Gothic to Renaissance; and various mediums of sculpture, paintings, relics and tapestries.
We viewed the Hudson River as we lunched and received garden information from the museum's curate.
Standing Virgin and Child
Nikolaus Gerhaert (–1473)
Northern Lowlands (Vienna),
c. 1470
Bishop Francis of Assisi giving a Palm to St. Clare
Unknown German Master