cloister

(noun)

A covered walk, especially in a monastery, with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle.

Related Terms

  • lunette
  • prothesis
  • diaconicon
  • mullion
  • basilica
  • clerestory
  • triforium
  • presbytery
  • theophany
  • fascia
  • perspective

Examples of cloister in the following topics:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wiligelmo and Other Forms of Architecture

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

    • 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.
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