03 — ARTWORK
Exterior view
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COMMENTARY
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Peter Speeth designed the prison in Würzburg below the castle on the principle of "speaking" architecture: it is a three-story cubic block with a heavily rusticated plinthsquare or rectangular section forming part of the base of a pillar, column, or statue.. The door, set in a semi-circular archThe pointed arch is widely regarded as the main identifiable feature of Gothic architecture (distinct from the round arch of the Romanesque period). The three most common Gothic arches are the Equilateral, Lancet and Tudor., tapers towards the ground, producing an oppressive feeling on entering. The ten columns over the doorway are popularly said in Würzburg to represents the Ten Commandments.
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@online{wga-r1115fd9fc1be26,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Exterior view by SPEETH, Peter},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/speeth-peter-r98ee5ab3bb2376/exterior-view-r1115fd9fc1be26},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
OTHER WORKS BY PETER SPEETH
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