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 ...

If we learned anything from the recent fire and reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris, it is that the building of a Gothic cathedral depends on countless prosaic operations—the felling of oak trees, ...

Hans Holbein the Elder (German, ca. 1465–1524); Portrait of the Architect Mathes (Matthäus) Roriczer ca. 1490–93; silverpoint on gray-white prepared paper, later partially covered with gray body color ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. The oldest surviving architectural drawings are of Strasbourg Cathedral, which was begun around 1250, ...

If we learned anything from the recent fire and reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris, it is that the building of a Gothic cathedral depends on countless prosaic operations—the felling of oak trees, ...