Margaret B. Freeman (1899–1980)

This book is a must-have for anyone who is interested in the Unicorn Tapestries. It's full-colored photos show detail of each scene of the tapestries; and the background text is informative. Unfortunately, it's out of print, so you're lucky if you can find a copy!

The Cloisters Museum is a subdivision of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum, situated in Fort Tryon Park, specializes in European medieval art and architecture, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Governed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it contains a large collection of medieval artworks shown in the architectural settings of French show more monasteries and abbeys. Its buildings are centered around four cloisters—the Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem, Bonnefont and Trie—that were acquired by American sculptor and art dealer George Grey Barnard in France before 1913, and moved to New York. Barnard's collection was bought for the museum by financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. Other major sources of objects were the collections of J. P. Morgan and Joseph Brummer. show less

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