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Domenico Quaglio

Chapel of Saint Margaret in the City of Nuremberg, from Collection of Memorable Medieval Buildings in Germany

1819
Lithograph in black with gray-green and pale red-orange tint stones on cream wove paper
39.2 × 39.5 cm (15.4 × 15.6 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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.

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