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Reconstructing a Gothic Vault Design

This video demonstrates the successive steps in the making of a Gothic architecture drawing. The process is based on a fifteenth-century drawing for a rib-vaulted ceiling in the Chapel of Saint Barbara in Saint Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.

Learn more about the exhibition Gothic By Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship, on view through July 19, 2026.


Contributors

Video excerpted from Traces: Genesis of a Gothic Building, 2009
Directed by Christiane Rainer
Commissioned by the Wien Museum

The Met:
Narrative Text: Femke Speelberg
Producer: Melissa Bell
Video Editor: Lela Jenkins


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