Architektur der Gotik - Gothic Architecture
Salzburg: Anton Pustet, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 464pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over burgundy cloth. Frontispiece. Remarkable catalogue of the world's largest collection of Gothic architectural drawings in the Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts. Art historian Johann Josef Böker has taken this collection of 428 drawings, dating back more than half a millenium, together with over a dozen drawings from the Wien Museum, collating them for the first time, with a comprehensive commentary. In the history of art, his research constitutes an event of prime importance, providing a new basis for examining the history of Gothic architecture. This works contains almost 500 pages of architectural drawings presented in all their beauty and technical maturity, together with historical b/w photographs of the buildings themselves. The drawings are from the great Central European centres of architecture in Vienna, Prague, Augsburg, Ulm, Cologne and as far as Strasbourg. Creasing along edges of dust-jacket. Text in German and English. Dust-jacket in overall fair to good-, binding and interior in very good condition. g. Item #32866
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