Before Gothic cathedrals could pierce the sky, someone had to draw them. Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship presents over 90 works—drawings, prints, goldsmith works, sculpture, and painting—tracing how master masons began to visualize their most ambitious ideas on parchment and paper between the 13th and 16th centuries. These little-known artworks reveal the vision and knowledge behind some of the Western world's most breathtaking buildings.
