Gothic Chapel
The Gothic Chapel is a Gothic chapel in the Detroit Institute of Arts building in Detroit , Michigan . The chapel provides a made Herbéviller in France translocated building from the 16th century is.
history
The chapel was built between 1522 and 1524 in the Flamboyant Gothic style by order of Jean Bayer de Boppard, Herr von Lannoy, as a castle chapel for the Chateau de Herbéviller in the town of the same name in Lorraine. The chapel was located on the lower floor of a wall tower of the castle and was bought in 1923 by the Parisian dealer GT DeMotte and came into the possession of the Detroit newspaper publisher Ralph H. Booth, who gave it to the museum, where the chapel was rebuilt in 1927. There it was incorporated into the museum architecture according to plans by Paul Philippe Cret . Original stained glass from Herbéviller is partially embedded in the window tracery.
The Chateau de Herbéviller before the chapel was dismantled
Exterior view of the apse of the chapel in Detroit
Individual evidence
literature
- Roland Flamini: French Stones in America . In: France Amérique Magazine August 2016, pp. 27–29.
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Coordinates: 42 ° 21 '32.9 " N , 83 ° 3' 52.7" W.