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The Trie Cloister Garden, The Cloisters NYC Royalty Free Stock Photo

NYC: Trie Cloister Calvaire at the Cloisters Museum Royalty Free Stock Photo

The Trie Cloister Garden, The Cloisters NYC

The Trie Cloister Garden evokes the idealized gardens and landscapes of the Middle Ages. The joy the medieval world felt upon the return of spring was expressed in their verdant, millefleur tapestries, allegorical poems, and paintings. The garden`s plantings are inspired by that cherished medieval setting, the enameled mead or flowering meadow. While medieval apothecary and vegetable gardens were orderly, with pleasing symmetry and balance, the medieval fantasy garden was a place of unbridled and untamed nature. This ecstatic vision of nature is evident in the Unicorn Tapestries` myriad of flowers and fruits. Regardless of their natural cycles: fall fruits, winter berries, and spring flowers coexist in a vision of an eternal spring. Much of the flora found blooming in the tapestries is cultivated here, though the plants bloom in their proper seasons.