Model Chalice
Medium
Gilt base metal, enamels, and semiprecious stones
Dimensions
H.: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.); 26.7 × 19.1 cm (10 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
metalwork
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63525
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was one of the most important early-19th-century designers of Gothic Revival architecture, furniture, and interior decoration. He trained under his French-born father, the architect Augustus Charles Pugin, an authority on medieval buildings. A devout convert to Roman Catholicism in a predominantly Anglican country, the younger Pugin proselytized through his architectural work and in a series of publications issued between 1835 and 1843. For Pugin, the Gothic style ...
About the Artist
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · 1812–1852
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) was a British architect, designer, and theorist whose fervent advocacy for Gothic architecture transformed Victorian Britain's built environment and established the intellectual foundations of the Gothic Revival movement. Born in London to the French architect and draughtsman Auguste Charles Pugin, he showed exceptional talent from childhood, producing de...