Façade of a Commercial Building, Venetian Gothic Style
ca. 1870
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
sheet: 14 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (37.5 x 24.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisa Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.562.9
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intricate world of 19th-century architectural whimsy with this delicate watercolor, *Façade of a Commercial Building, Venetian Gothic Style Created around 1870 by an anonymous British artist, it masterfully captures the elegant exterior of a commercial structure adorned in the lavish Venetian Gothic manner. Measuring 14 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, this sheet from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department showcases the style's signature pointed arches, ornate tracery, and rhythmic window patterns, blending Gothic verticality with Byzantine and Islamic flourishes that...