“How do you do it – time after time after time – beautiful photographs that need no words and beautiful words that need no photographs? Combined they transport us to the deepest place of our inner selves. These places are amazing to start with, but what Dennis Aubrey and PJ McKey accomplish in these spaces with a camera is breathtaking.” This is the most incredible collection of images from Medieval churches I have yet seen. “There are people who take pictures, there are photographers, and then, there is Via Lucis. They would include:Īs these are done, I’ll link the videos to this list, which will serve as an index page for these explanations. I may extend it out to include other medieval roof treatments, principally the domes. Let me know if these are helpful and I will do more of them. If you want to see it larger, here is a link to the YouTube version. This is the first video, for the simple groin vault, one of the earliest of medieval vaults. Please understand that these videos do not show how each vault was actually constructed, but what it looks like. Using Google Sketch Up, I’ve been able to develop a much more informative graphic presentations, which have now turned into video explanations of the subject. We have made posts earlier using photographs to show the various types of vaulting, but this is necessarily insufficient. The subject of medieval vaulting can be very complicated.
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