cloister

Examples of cloister in the following topics:

• The Rise of the Monasteries

  • Christian monasticism, which consists of individuals living ascetic and often cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship, became popular during the Middle Ages and gave rise to several monastic orders with different goals and lifestyles.
  • Christian monasticism is the devotional practice of individuals who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship.
  • They might also spend time in the Cloister, a covered colonnade around a courtyard, where they would pray or read.
  • Men of God were no longer expected to stay behind the walls of a cloister.

• Architecture of the Early Christian Church

  • It was ringed with a colonnade or arcade, like the stoa or peristyle that was its ancestor, or like the cloister that was its descendant.
  • The central section is surrounded by two superposed ambulatories, or covered passages around a cloister.

• Chartreuse de Champmol

  • Its cloister surrounded a courtyard in which Sluter constructed the Well of Moses (1395–1403), whose monumental sculptures combine the International Gothic style with a northern realism.
  • The cottage-like hermitages of the monks can be seen surrounding the main cloister, with the Well of Moses in the middle.

• Wiligelmo and Other Forms of Architecture

  • The cloisters of Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey, in Northern Spain, and Moissac are fine surviving examples.

• Urbino

  • Luciano Laurana, an architect from Dalmatia who had been influenced by Brunelleschi's cloisters in Florence, designed the façade, the famous courtyard, and the great entrance staircase.

• Romanesque Sculpture: Majestat Batlló

  • The tunic also has an analogy with an Islamic motif abacus of the cloister of the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Moissac, which seems to prove the spread during the Romanesque period.

• Illuminated Manuscripts

  • By the 14th century, the cloisters of monks writing in the scriptorium had almost fully given way to commercial urban scriptoria, especially in Paris, Rome and the Netherlands.

• Ravenna

  • The central section is surrounded by two superposed ambulatories, or covered passages around a cloister.

• Cistercian Architecture

  • Various buildings, including the chapter-house to the east and the dormitories above, were grouped around a cloister and were sometimes linked to the transept of the church itself by a night stair.

• Romanesque Painting and Stained Glass

  • Master of Pedret, The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, apse fresco, Spain, c. 1100, now The Cloisters.