Interior of Milan Cathedral

Interior of Milan Cathedral from around 1830 by David Roberts captures one of the largest Gothic churches in Europe. Milan's Duomo, with its forest of marble columns and abundant statuary, provided one of the most spectacular interior spaces in European architecture. Roberts built up his architectural subjects with careful pencil underdrawing before applying watercolor or oil washes, combining the documentary precision of a trained scene painter with genuine artistic sensitivity to light and atm

The vast cathedral interior is rendered with Roberts's precise architectural perspective, the soaring columns creating a sense of overwhelming sacred space.