Nature and the chapel vaults at Ingolstadt: structuralist and other perspectives.(Cover Story)

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Kavaler, Ethan Matt | Copyright information

The sixteenth century saw the creation of remarkable works of Gothic architecture, highly innovative in technical and decorative aspects, and none more so than the six western chapels in the Church of Our Lady in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Here we encounter a self-conscious use of the Gothic in the establishment of a sacred environment, a space for mystical illumination. These chapels thus constitute a set of demonstration pieces for a mode of design in need of refurbishment as well as a...

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