Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship

$40.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

By Femke Speelberg with an essay by Melanie Holcomb The Gothic era produced some of the Western world’s most imposing structures, today icons of the European cityscape. Unlike buildings from the Renaissance onward, these medieval works are rarely discussed as the products of the ingenious, innovative contributions of individual architects. This book challenges that common perception by asserting the significant impact of draftsmanship on the development of the Gothic style from the twelfth to early sixteenth…