How to Design and Build Complex Rib Vaults from A to Z Principles, Practices, and Geometric Processors in International Late Gothic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 7
3. Wider, Lighter, Faster Building Vaults in the Medieval Mediterranean 11
4. Mediterranean Paths The Construction of Vaults in Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia (15th–16th Centuries) 29
5. How to Design and Build Complex Rib Vaults from A to Z Principles, Practices, and Geometric Processors in International Late Gothic 43
6. Design Details of Gothic Vaults in Joseph Gelabert‘s Treatise on Stonecutting 79
7. The Vaults of Mallorca Cathedral Rising to a Technical Challenge 95
8. The Vaults of the Obra Nova in the Cathedral of Mallorca (c. 1573–1587) Written Sources about Chronology, Patronage and Construction 125
9. Construction Analysis of Gothic Vaults in the Cathedral of Mallorca 149
10. The Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca, a Wonder of Equilibrium Rubió i Bellver’s Equilibrium Analysis of 1912 165
11. Plates 203