Mathes Roriczer

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Who is Mathes Roriczer?

Mathes Roriczer also Matthäus Roritzer, was a 15th-century German architect and author of several surviving booklets on medieval architectural design.

Born into a family of master builders, Roritzer progressed to the position of master builder of cathedrals, or Baudommeister and in this role contributed to the Regensburg Cathedral the Eichstaett Dom, and St. Lorenz Church of Nuremberg. While in Regensburg he printed broadsheets and also published several of his own works. It is one of his texts, Büchlein von der Fialen Gerechtigkeit or Booklet Concerning Pinnacle Correctitude, that is sometimes credited with revealing the craft secrets of the German medieval master masons. It is more likely that no such secrecy existed, and that the scarcity of contemporary writing combined with the rules that prevented masons from working for a non-trained builder have give this erroneous impression.

There exists a portrait of Mathes Roriczer by Hans Holbein the Elder.

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