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Description
The designs on our garden tote are based on fifteenth-century woodcuts in the Metropolitan Museum’s collection illustrating chamomile, fennel, rose, and wild strawberry. All four plants grow in the garden of the Bonnefont Cloister, one of four reconstructed medieval cloisters that give The Cloisters museum and gardens its name. The three enclosed gardens at The Cloisters are treasures in themselves, each with its own delightful character. Together they illuminate the important role that plants played in medieval art and life, from the medicinal to the allegorical.Cotton canvas. Lined. Open central compartment with outside pockets. 9''H x 15 1/2''L x 6''D; 20'' double handles.
- Cotton canvas
- Open central compartment with outside pockets
- Lined
- 20'' double handles9''H x 15 1/2''L x 6''D
Art History
BEHIND THE SCENE: IN A MEDIEVAL GARDENDeirdre Larkin
Horticulturist, The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
The three enclosed gardens at The Cloisters have been an integral part of the Museum since 1938, and are counted among its treasures. Planted in reconstructed Romanesque and Gothic cloisters, the gardens evoke those found within medieval monasteries and convents. Monastic gardens provided food and medicine as well as natural beauty and spiritual refreshment. Our gardens are places of beauty and contemplation, and can be enjoyed simply as a retreat from urban life, or as a setting for a great collection of medieval art and architecture. They also contain many edible, medicinal, and useful plants, as well as symbolic plants, functioning as living laboratories for the study of the Middle Ages. To the medieval mind, all of life was connected, and plants were part of the very structure of life and art. The gardens of The Cloisters open a door into the medieval world.
Each of the three gardens has its own character. The Cuxa Cloister Garth Garden is the Museum’s main ornamental garden. The plan is typically medieval, but both medieval species and modern garden plants are grown to provide color and scent from springtime through fall. The Bonnefont Cloister Herb Garden holds one of the most specialized plant collections in the world, organized by use (i.e., magical, medicinal, culinary). It is a challenging garden to maintain because the plants grouped together under such headings may have very different horticultural requirements. Here you can see rare species that you won’t see elsewhere, such as mandrake or henbane. You may also learn to appreciate very ordinary plants: ground ivy is considered to be a common weed, but it has a place of honor in the bed of Magical Plants in Bonnefont Garden. The Cloister Garden, home to a collection of plants native to European meadows, woodlands, and stream banks, evokes the flowering grounds of medieval millefleurs tapestries.
A garden tour can be a gratifying sensory experience, and an intellectually stimulating one, for both visitors and lecturers. Many people have an immediate response to plants, and a natural curiosity about them. Time spent in the gardens can help visitors to connect with the medieval past presented in the galleries. Seeing the plants represented in the collection also living and growing outside in the gardens is one of the perennial pleasures of a visit to The Cloisters.
The gardens inspire curiosity and enthusiasm as well as providing quiet enjoyment. People have been known to develop a profound attachment to favorite plants, such as the espaliered pear and the beloved quince trees, which have grown at The Cloisters since the 1950s and are now an icon of the Museum. The popular “Garden Days at The Cloisters,” a themed event held the first weekend in June, attracts many visitors each year.
The position of horticulturist at The Cloisters is unique. The job is physical and sensory as well as intellectually gratifying. It entails finding, planting, growing, researching, and interpreting hundreds of plants. The work changes with the seasons, from daily planting and sowing in the spring to putting the gardens to bed for the winter. In a given season, the weather, not the gardeners, often determines which plants flourish and which decline.
Year-round, The Cloisters is a truly special place to work and visit.
Description
The designs on our garden tote are based on fifteenth-century woodcuts in the Metropolitan Museum’s collection illustrating chamomile, fennel, rose, and wild strawberry. All four plants grow in the garden of the Bonnefont Cloister, one of four reconstructed medieval cloisters that give The Cloisters museum and gardens its name. The three enclosed gardens at The Cloisters are treasures in themselves, each with its own delightful character. Together they illuminate the important role that plants played in medieval art and life, from the medicinal to the allegorical.Cotton canvas. Lined. Open central compartment with outside pockets. 9''H x 15 1/2''L x 6''D; 20'' double handles.
- Cotton canvas
- Open central compartment with outside pockets
- Lined
- 20'' double handles9''H x 15 1/2''L x 6''D
Art History
BEHIND THE SCENE: IN A MEDIEVAL GARDENDeirdre Larkin
Horticulturist, The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
The three enclosed gardens at The Cloisters have been an integral part of the Museum since 1938, and are counted among its treasures. Planted in reconstructed Romanesque and Gothic cloisters, the gardens evoke those found within medieval monasteries and convents. Monastic gardens provided food and medicine as well as natural beauty and spiritual refreshment. Our gardens are places of beauty and contemplation, and can be enjoyed simply as a retreat from urban life, or as a setting for a great collection of medieval art and architecture. They also contain many edible, medicinal, and useful plants, as well as symbolic plants, functioning as living laboratories for the study of the Middle Ages. To the medieval mind, all of life was connected, and plants were part of the very structure of life and art. The gardens of The Cloisters open a door into the medieval world.
Each of the three gardens has its own character. The Cuxa Cloister Garth Garden is the Museum’s main ornamental garden. The plan is typically medieval, but both medieval species and modern garden plants are grown to provide color and scent from springtime through fall. The Bonnefont Cloister Herb Garden holds one of the most specialized plant collections in the world, organized by use (i.e., magical, medicinal, culinary). It is a challenging garden to maintain because the plants grouped together under such headings may have very different horticultural requirements. Here you can see rare species that you won’t see elsewhere, such as mandrake or henbane. You may also learn to appreciate very ordinary plants: ground ivy is considered to be a common weed, but it has a place of honor in the bed of Magical Plants in Bonnefont Garden. The Cloister Garden, home to a collection of plants native to European meadows, woodlands, and stream banks, evokes the flowering grounds of medieval millefleurs tapestries.
A garden tour can be a gratifying sensory experience, and an intellectually stimulating one, for both visitors and lecturers. Many people have an immediate response to plants, and a natural curiosity about them. Time spent in the gardens can help visitors to connect with the medieval past presented in the galleries. Seeing the plants represented in the collection also living and growing outside in the gardens is one of the perennial pleasures of a visit to The Cloisters.
The gardens inspire curiosity and enthusiasm as well as providing quiet enjoyment. People have been known to develop a profound attachment to favorite plants, such as the espaliered pear and the beloved quince trees, which have grown at The Cloisters since the 1950s and are now an icon of the Museum. The popular “Garden Days at The Cloisters,” a themed event held the first weekend in June, attracts many visitors each year.
The position of horticulturist at The Cloisters is unique. The job is physical and sensory as well as intellectually gratifying. It entails finding, planting, growing, researching, and interpreting hundreds of plants. The work changes with the seasons, from daily planting and sowing in the spring to putting the gardens to bed for the winter. In a given season, the weather, not the gardeners, often determines which plants flourish and which decline.
Year-round, The Cloisters is a truly special place to work and visit.
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