Influence St. Vitus Cathedral

the eastern façade

the cathedral of st. vitus had tremendous influence on development of late gothic style characteristic central europe. members of parler workshop, , indeed, parler family (both of established @ building site of st. vitus) designed numerous churches , buildings across central europe. more notable examples include stephansdom cathedral in vienna, strasbourg cathedral, church of st. marko in zagreb , church of st. barbara in kutna hora, in czech republic. regional gothic styles of slovenia, northern croatia, austria, czech republic, , southern germany heavily influenced parler design.

of particular interest parler s net vaults. late gothic of central europe characterised ornate , extraordinary vaulting, practice started parler s development of own vaulting system choir of st. vitus cathedral. regional gothic style displays amazing ingenuity , ornamentation in design of vaults, perpendicular style of english gothic. question remains of influenced what. british art , architecture historians suspected peter parler might have travelled england @ point in life, studying great english gothic cathedrals, inspired work on st vitus. however, taking account perpendicular style , use of extravagant vaults in english gothic began @ end of 14th century, quite possible st vitus cathedral of prague influenced development of english gothic.