Architectural Drawing

French

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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.

Architectural Drawing, Pen and brown ink over black chalk on vellum, French

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Architectural Drawing, Pen and brown ink over black chalk on vellum, French
Architectural Drawing, Pen and brown ink over black chalk on vellum, French
Architectural Drawing, Pen and brown ink over black chalk on vellum, French

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