Peter Barnet
Author of The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
About the Author
Image credit: Peter Barnet, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Works by Peter Barnet
The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) (2005) 236 copies, 2 reviews
Lions, Dragons, & other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages: Vessels for Church and Table (2006) 22 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Barnet, Peter
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Yale University
- Occupations
- art historian
curator - Organizations
- College Art Association
Association of Art Museum Curators
Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research
Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute
Detroit Museum of Art
Members
Reviews
The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture by Peter Barnet and Nancy Wu
What a beautiful book! This text "breaks apart" the structure of the Cloisters (tiself assembled in a bit of a hodgepodge), taking individual elements and structures and examining them.
As an example of how accurate the descriptions are and how vividly it describes things: a few months after first looking at the book, I read a mystery in which there was a chase scene and a shootout (!) at the Cloisters. Because I had read this book, I was able to follow the *entire* scene and picture each major landmark mentioned. I hadn't been to the Cloisters in 10 years, but the book brought it all back that well!
This is more than a coffee table book; it deserves to be studied, not just propped up for looks. If you do get it, read it and do it justice!… (more)
As an example of how accurate the descriptions are and how vividly it describes things: a few months after first looking at the book, I read a mystery in which there was a chase scene and a shootout (!) at the Cloisters. Because I had read this book, I was able to follow the *entire* scene and picture each major landmark mentioned. I hadn't been to the Cloisters in 10 years, but the book brought it all back that well!
This is more than a coffee table book; it deserves to be studied, not just propped up for looks. If you do get it, read it and do it justice!… (more)
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ijustgetbored | 1 other review | Dec 18, 2007 |
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Statistics
- Works
- 7
- Members
- 328
- Popularity
- #72,311
- Rating
- 4.3
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 13