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Article: Cuxa Cloister, ca. 1130-40. French, Roussillon (Pyrenees-Orientales), from the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, near Perpignan.(GalleryCard: Structure)(Brief article)
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Cuxa Cloister, ca. 1130-40. French, Roussillon (Pyrenees-Orientales), from the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, near Perpignan. Marble; 90' x 78' (27.5 x 24 m). (The 13th-century fountain originally stood in the monastery of Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines, near Cuxa). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Cloisters Collection, 1925 (25.120).
This evocation of a medieval cloister provides a sense of how a four-sided covered walkway, with a garden (symbolizing Paradise) and fountain at its core, functioned as the center of a monastery, closed off from the outside world. Usually the church, refectory (dining area), dormitory, and chapter house ...