Cross Section of a Baroque Church or Chapel with a Bell-shaped Roof

Cross Section of a Baroque Church or Chapel with a Bell-shaped Roof

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cross section of a Baroque church or chapel, showing details of the constructrion. The cross section of the walls reveils dense brick work and the cross section of the bell-shaped roof shows the wooden support structure, which reaches all the way into the vase that crowns the building. The interior of the building is characterized by a simple altar with a crucifix, flanked by columns in the Composite order on either side. Below the cross section, a scale has been added.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.