Artwork
Gothischer Kreuzgang (Gothic Cloister)
Gothischer Kreuzgang (Gothic Cloister) is an ink print by the Romanticist artist Domenico Quaglio. It dates from 1808 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
About this work
Overview
Gothischer Kreuzgang (Gothic Cloister) is a lithograph on wove paper created by Domenico Quaglio in 1808.
Subject & Meaning
The print depicts a serene, shadowy church interior or cloister with tall arches and stone columns, where a few figures are gathered around a simple tomb or seated alone, illuminated by soft light filtering through distant windows.
Technique & Style
Quaglio employed shading to convey a sense of depth and mystery in the depicted space, utilizing the capabilities of lithography, a printmaking technique.
Artist & collection
Monks in a Cathedral
Notable Buildings of the Middle Ages in Germany: Ruins of the Church of the Virgin with the Tomb of Genevieve and Siegfried, Count Palatine of the Rhine, in the Moselle Valley near Andernack
Tewkesbury Abbey
Interior of the Temple Church
Notable Buildings of the Middle Ages in Germany: St. Margaret's Chapel in the Imperial Castle at Nuremberg
Architecture of the Middle Ages: In the Cathedral, Bruges
Architecture of the Middle Ages: Church at Serran, near Gisore