Chapel of Saint Margaret in the City of Nuremberg, from Collection of Memorable Medieval Buildings in Germany
1819
Medium
Lithograph in black with gray-green and pale red-orange tint stones on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/text: 39.2 × 39.5 cm (15 7/16 × 15 9/16 in.); Sheet: 47.5 × 58.3 cm (18 3/4 × 23 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
131406
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Quaglio shared the German Romantic fondness for lithography and nostalgia for medieval architecture. Unusually vivid in its use of tint-stone coloring, Quaglio’s glowing lithograph depicts the internal chamber of a chapel as if it were not only illuminated, but suffused with fire. Documenting dozens of similar sites across Germany, he would later gain a commission to restore Hohenschwangau Castle to its Gothic glory.