Architectural Drawing
Perfectly proportioned, finely detailed, and executed with ease, everything about this drawing suggests a confident and experienced draftsman intimately familiar with the architectural vocabulary and design methods of the most sophisticated urban workshops of late fifteenth-century northern France. Though there is no evidence that the drawing served as a model for any existing building, it is similar to the west facade of the parish church of Saint-Maclou in Rouen designed in the 1430s and built in the 1480s.
Artwork Details
- Title: Architectural Drawing
- Date: 1450–1500
- Culture: French
- Medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk on vellum
- Dimensions: Overall: 17 9/16 x 11 3/4 in. (44.6 x 29.8 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1968
- Object Number: 68.49
- Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters
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