NEW YORK CITY—“Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship” is a groundbreaking exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is the first-ever presentation of Gothic architecture drawings in the context of art history.
Before this exhibition, such works have primarily been the purview of architectural historians, who studied them as blueprints as opposed to masterpiece drawings. The Met has engineered a revelatory show for both the public and specialists, many of whom are unaware that the Gothic architects of some of Europe’s most magnificent soaring structures made drawings that were fundamental to construction and the professions’ evolution.
