Examples of cloister in the following topics:
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- The cloisters of Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey, in Northern Spain, and Moissac are fine surviving examples.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- The central section is surrounded by two superposed ambulatories, or covered passages around a cloister.
-
- 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.
-
- Master of Pedret, The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, apse fresco, Spain, c. 1100, now The Cloisters.
-
- The arcade of a cloister is typically of a single stage; the arcade that divides the nave and aisles in a church, however, is typically of two stages, with a third stage of window openings known as the clerestory rising above them.