  About the Artwork
  
  
  This late Gothic chapel, constructed in the early sixteenth century by a noble family for private devotion, is an example of French “flamboyant” architecture, so called because of the elegant flamelike window tracery that characterizes the style. The Gothic period was a time of great change in religious devotion. By the fourteenth century, private worship in individual chapels was increasingly common for the upper classes. This chapel was originally the central feature projecting from the façade of the Herbéviller chateau, indicating its symbolic importance. The stained glass installed in the axial windows over the altar and in the tracery panels is original to the chapel. The medallions installed in the lower windows are the fifteenth-century German pieces added in Detroit with modern strapwork surrounds.
  
  
  Title
  Chapel
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1522 and 1524
  
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  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  French
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
  French
  
  
  Medium
  Limestone and stained glass
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall (vault to keystone): 15 ft. 9 3/8 inches (4 m 81 cm)
  Overall (inner walls, width x length): 116 1/8 × 130 5/16 inches (295 cm × 3 m 31 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Architecture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Booth
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  23.147
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
