This day we took the Long Island Railroad into Manhattan. We then took the subway from Penn Station at 34th Street to 190 Street where we got off and walked several blocks to The Cloisters. The Cloisters is a division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and it is located in Fort Tryon Park. The park looks like a great walking park and is probably very busy on summer weekends.
The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe with items arranged in roughly chronological order from the Romanesque period (ca. AD 1000 to about 1150) and continues through the Gothic era about 1150 and ending with the last flowering of this style about 1520. The Cloisters was built about 1938. If you are ever in NYC this is worth seeing.
Our admission fee included access to the main Metropolitan Museum of Art at 5th Avenue and 82nd Street. We have been there at least twice before. This time we decided to see the section devoted to European paintings. The Dutch and French paintings were very interesting. The Italian paintings were mostly religious but well done. I didn’t like the Spanish paintings at all. The day was sunny and the temperature was about 60 F. Had to remove and carry my winter coat. Many New Yorkers were out in their shirt sleeves.
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