Highlights of The Met Cloisters
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Published 2021-08-20
Featuring:
Griffith Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, The Met Cloisters
Carly Still, Managing Horticulturist, The Met Cloisters
Lucretia Kargere, Conservator, The Met Cloisters
Julia Perratore, Assistant Curator, The Met Cloisters
Yvette Weaver, Assistant Horticulturist, The Met Cloisters
Featured Artwork:
Book of Flower Studies, ca. 1510–1515, Made in Tours, France (acc. no. 2019.197)
Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur ca. 1456–1458, Made in Saragossa, Aragon, Spain (acc. no. 09.146)
Apse from San Martin at Fuentidueña, ca. 1175–1200, Made in Segovia, Castile-León, Spain (L.58.86a–f)
Video by Steadfast Productions in association with The Met
Steadfast Productions:
Director and Editor: Ben Poster
Producer: Shanthi Blanchard
Director of Photography: Gregg Conde
2nd Camera: Jason Chau
AC: John Henri Coene
Sound: Tyson Dai
Production Assistants: Jackie Monoson, Taicha Morin
Sound Mix: Marco Morales
Music: Austin Fisher
The Met:
Managing Producer: Kate Farrell
Producer: Melissa Bell
Production Coordinator: Bryan Martin
Production Assistant: Lela Jenkins
Membership: Allison Sokaris, Frederica Wald, Cassandra Connors
The Cloisters: Christina Alphonso, Andrew Winslow, Lambert Fernando, and John Rousseau
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All Comments (21)
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This video is enough to make me want to live in New York City. The Met has SO much to fill my soul, and the souls of millions. I appreciate our local museums even more now. WonderFUL!
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Absolutely adore Cloisters, inside and outside. I visit every time, often multiple times when in New York.
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Great to see humble plants like dandelions so appreciated and Lucretia in her element! Very interested to see snowdrops in that old book too. Early illustrations of galanthus are quite rare.
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Beautiful tour of the Cloisters, my favorite place in NYC.
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Practical botany and luscious art. Thank you!! Looking forward to a visit.
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Thank you for transporting me to The Cloisters in all its calm beauty🙏
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Wonderful presentation. The enthusiasm and openness of the staff is contagious.
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Amazing inside look - please keep releasing these videos!
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First time I saw The Cloisters was in West Side Story (2021). I remember thinking how beautiful it was.
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Thank you for this beautiful presentation!
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I really enjoyed this presentation. Thank you!!!
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Working at a place like this would have been a dream. This is beautiful.
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I am reading a book called the cloisters now.
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So happy to have stumbled across this breathtaking episode. I am planning to come see all this with my own eyes come spring. The ladies are all very special and knowledgeable in their own rights. What a joy it must be to belong to such a inspirational group of colleagues, thank you all
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Warw So so vell made and easy to understand !!
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Thank You for this wonderful tour and for Your commitment. Looking forward to returning to this magical place in the near future. I will see everything; structure, art and flowers, with brand new and more illuminated eyes.💜
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The MET cloisters was my favorite part of my Manhattan trip.
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This video was auto played after a comedy video about an audio tour of the MET Cloisters led to a battal royal... I have found this hilarious.
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Love this place.
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Anybody else get anxiety when he blew on the dandelion clock?
