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Example sentences for: cloister
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The cathedral has an especially beautiful Gothic cloister and Sacred Art Museum, with an extraordinary impressive collection of relics and clerical vestments.
Through a separate entrance left of the church, escape the bustle of the piazza in the Dominicans’ 14th-century cloister (Chiostro Verde), with Paolo Uccello’s frescoes of the Universal Deluge.
The interlacing Arab-Norman arches of the 13th-century cloister, Chiostro del Paradiso, make a handsome setting for the summer recitals of chamber music.
The famous set of frescoes in the tomb of Prince Zhanghuai depicts an animated polo match, a hunting expedition, a reception for foreign diplomats, and (most movingly) a scene in a court cloister with a young concubine looking longingly at a bird in flight.
Exhibitions of art and books are held in the various halls off the cloister.
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