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Hello Steemians! This is my contribution for #marketfriday initiated by our dear friend Denise @dswigle. This post is dedicated to my two dear friends here in Steemit: Denise @dswigle and Lena @lenasveganlinving!

~ The Met Cloisters Museum ~

The Met Cloisters, is a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The collection contains work from western Europe, including sculpture,stained glass. tapestries,painting,manuscripts and metalwork. The garden feature medieval plantings.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. generously provided for the building, the location in Forth Tyron Park, and the acquisition of the collection of George Grey Bernard, in 1925. The Cloisters opened to the public in 1938.

~ Pair Of Lions ~

Limestone
North Italian, Emilia, early 13th century

Alert and looking toward each other, both protect their prey - a lamb in one and a calf in the other- beneath paws. The pair originally supported columns and probably flanked a small doorway of a church. By the mid-eighteenth century, they were placed at the door of a chapel near the village of Quattro Castella, near Reggio Emilia.

~ Pontaut Chapter House Gallery ~

Limestone, brick and plaster.
French, Aquitaine, 12th century.
From the Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame at Pontaut, south of Bordeaux.

The chapter house was the daily meeting place in most European monasteries and convents. The monks or nuns sat on the stone bench around the walls, to read. The architecture of the chapter house features Romanesque characteristics, round arches, thick walls, small windows, and heavy rib vaults.
The abbey at Pontaut was found in 1115 as a Benedictine monastery. In 1791 the monasteries buildings were sold to a local family, and the chapter house was converted into a stable; it was sold in 1932 and brought to New York.

~ Unicorn Tapestries Room ~

These renowned tapestries were probably designed in Paris and woven in Brussels for an unknown in about 1500.

- The Unicorn In Captivity -

Wool, silk, and silver and gilded-silver wrapped thread.
South Netherlands, ca. 1495 - 1505

- The Unicorn Is Attacked -

Wool, silk, and silver and gilded-silver wrapped thread.
South Netherlands, ca. 1495 - 1505

- The Unicorn Purifies Water -

Wool, silk, and silver and gilded-silver wrapped thread.
South Netherlands, ca. 1495 - 1505

- The Unicorn Is Killed And Brought To The Castle -

Wool, silk, and silver and gilded-silver wrapped thread.
South Netherlands, ca. 1495 - 1505

~ Altar Predella And Sode ~ Alabaster Spanish, Aragon, ca. 1456-58. From the chapel of the archbishop’s palace at Saragossa, built by the Aragonese sculptor Francí Gomar.

~ Reliquary Busts Of Female Saints ~ Oak with paint and gilding South Netherlandish, Brabant, possibly Brussels, ca. 1520-30 Bust reliquaries for the skulls of saints were placed on or near the altars.

~ Doorway ~

Limestone
Spanish, Castile- Leon, early 13th century
From the church of San Vicente Mártir at Frias, near Burgos
Fletcher Fund, 1923.
The main portal of the church was nearly destroyed in 1879. Eighty fragments have been used to reconstruct the monumental doorway seen here.

~Fireplace ~ Limestone French, Normandy, Alençon, late 15th-early 16th century.

~ Fireback ~

Cast iron
French, Normandy, Alençon,
late 15th-early 16th century.

~ Andirons ~

Wrought iron
French, late 14th-early 15th century.

~ Trammel Hook ~ Wrought iron French or Spanish, late 15th- early 16th century.

~ Caldron ~

Copper alloy, wrought iron handle
French or South Netherlandish, 13th - 14th century.

~ Pair Of Folding Armchairs ~

Walnut
Italian, late 15th - early 16th century.

~ Palmesel ~

Limestone
German, 15th century.
The German word Palmesel (pal donkey) refers to the statue of Jesus on a donkey on a wheeled platform, which was part in many German regions until the Reformation.

~ Kneeling Virgin ~

Willow with paint and gilding.
Italian, attributed to Paolo Aquilano.

~Christ Is Born As Man’s Redeemer Tapestry ~

Wool warp; wool and silk wefts.
1500 - 1520.

This Is The Back View of The Cloisters’s Chapel

Now here is a thing,
we all Know that all the museums have a little store or market, to get souvenirs from the visit, but by the time I returned to the entrance of the museum where the store is located, the little store was already closed. My bad :(
Anyway I hope you guys enjoyed the show!

Camera Samsung Galaxy S6 phone.