The Met Cloisters, a museum in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, is displaying objects from the Colmar Treasure, a medieval Jewish family’s trove of exquisite decorative pieces that remained hidden for some 500 years. The Cloisters — a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art — focuses on architecture, sculpture, and decorative arts from medieval Europe. The exhibit is on loan from the Musée de Cluny in Paris and will run July 22, 2019–January 12, 2020.
Quote: “A cache of jeweled rings, brooches, and coins — the precious possessions of a Jewish family of medieval Alsace — was hidden in the fourteenth century in the wall of a house in Colmar, France. Discovered in 1863 and on view in an exhibition at The Met Cloisters, the Colmar Treasure revives the memory of a once-thriving Jewish community that was scapegoated and put to death when the Plague struck the region with devastating ferocity in 1348–49.” — Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sources: Wikipedia, metmuseum.org
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