MedievalArt.org.uk - Photographs by Stuart Whatling
Medieval Art & Architecture in Saxony
The Courtauld Institute & Harvard University Doctoral Students Trip, 2007
Day 6 - Meissen Dom Interior (click here for exterior, including towers and roofspace)
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 Nave looking east |
 North aisle looking west |
 Nave looking west |
 Dombaumeister Günther Donath & Prof. Hambuger |
 Eastern chapel |
 Eastern chapel apse |
 Eastern chapel sexpartite vault |
 Axial window |
 Axial window - top |
 Lower (Eucharistic typology / prophets / Passion) |
 Middle section |
 Upper section |
 Eastern screen from choir |
 Canopies over stalls |
 Stall canopies from above |
 Rear of eastern screen |
 Mason's drawings of coursed window respond template |
 One of the responds corresponding to the drawing |
 Founder figures |
 Fundatrix |
 Founder |
 Titular saints |
 St John the Evangelist |
 Saint Donatus |
 Figure of St Basil from choir screen |
 Gables on choir screen |
 Choir screen from west |
 Figure of John the Baptist |
 Madonna and Child |
 Vaults over the crossing |
 Stone cut with dovetail slot for lifting irons |
 Lifting irons (Lewis) in position |
 Chris demonstrating the Lewis |
 Western chapel vault |
 Western chapel vault |
 Western chapel vault |
 Last judgement portal |
 Last judgement portal |
 Nativity, Epiphany & Coronation in tympanum |
 Magus |
 Madonna & Child |
 Crockets on vault springers |
 Monkeys holding escutcheon beneath magus |
 Western chapel vault |
 Foliate capitals |
 Left hand side of judgement portal |
 The dead arising on judgement day |
 Judgement portal |
 Right hand side of judgement portal |
 The dead arising on judgement day |
 Diamond vaults in the crypt |