MedievalArt.org.uk - Photographs by Stuart Whatling
Medieval Art & Architecture in Saxony
The Courtauld Institute & Harvard University Doctoral Students Trip, 2007
Day 1 - Magdeburg Cathedral Exterior (click here for interior)
 Pilaster with trefoil moulding - west facade |
 Pilaster with plain moulding - west facade |
 View of nave and westwork from northeast |
 Tracery on north face of northwestern tower |
 North side of nave |
 North side of nave |
 Gables and tracery on north side of nave |
 Gables and tracery on north side of nave |
 Gables and tracery on north side of nave |
 Window tracery - chapel to north side of nave |
 'Propeller' tracery |
 Northern porch |
 Northeastern corner, showing chapels |
 Moulding on eastern bay of nave - lower storey |
 Moulding on eastern bay of nave - gallery storey |
 Moulding on eastern bay of nave - gallery storey (detail) |
 Moulding on eastern bay of nave - triforium level |
 Moulding over aisle chapel |
 Apsidial gallery windows |
 Apsidial gallery windows |
 Apsidial gallery windows - detail of shaft rings |
 South flank from the cloister |
 Unfinished gables on south of nave |
 South of nave and south transept |
 Cloister - south range |
 Cloister - south range |
 Epitaph plaque in cloister |
Cloister - east range |
 Cloister - east range |
 Cloister - north range with s. transept and 'tonsura' |
 Cloister - north range with s. transept and 'tonsura' |
 South transept window and 'tonsura' chapel |
 Angled buttresses on the tonsura |
 Interior of the tonsura chapel |
 Perforated ribs inside the tonsura chapel (c.1330) |
 Inside the south range of the cloister |
 Chapter house (?) |
 Chapter house (?) |
 Chapter house (?) - blind tracery on impost block |
 Chapter house (?) - corbel |
 Chapter house (?) |
 Chapel |
 Chapel - reticulated vault and swallowtail ribs |
 Chapel - swallowtail ribs |
 Chapel - polychromed limestone altarpiece |