The webpages linked here demonstrate some aspect of medieval building construction – stonemasonry, scaffolding, pulleys, etc. – as well as showing how construction workers would have dressed in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance.

See also Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts.

• Building the Tower of Babel, Old English Illustrated Hexateuch (British Library Cotton Claudius B IV, fol. 19r), second quarter of the 11th century
• The rebuilding of the Temple in a bible (Getty Ludwig I 8, V3, fol. 256v), c. 1270
• Construction of the Tower of Babel from a bible historiale (BNF Fr. 160, fol. 17v), first quarter of the 14th century
• Construction of the Tower of Babel from a bible historiale (BNF Fr. 156, fol. 17), first half of the 14th century
• St. Denis founds a church (fol. 205v) and St. Valentine and his disciples (fol. 210), The Lives of the Saints (BNF Fr. 185), second quarter of the 14th century
• Reconstruction of Troy, The Romance of Thebes (BNF Fr. 60, fol. 54), c. 1330
• Construction of the Tower of Babel from a bible historiale (BNF Fr. 152, fol. 21v), 14th century
• Construction of the Tower of Babel from a bible historiale (BNF Fr. 168, fol. 11), 14th century
• Hedwig has a monastery for Cistercian nuns built at Trebnitz, Life of the Blessed Hedwig (Getty Ludwig XI 7, fol. 56), 1353
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, Egerton Genesis Picture Book (British Library Egerton 1894, fol. 5v), c. 1360
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, The City of God (BNF Fr. 171, fol. 135v), fourth quarter of the 14th century
• Construction of Noah's Ark, Bible Historiale (BNF Fr. 159, fol. 12), 14th-15th century
• Construction of the Tower of Babel and the destruction of Sodom, The City of God (BNF Fr. 21, fol. 87), beginning of the 15th century
• Reconstruction of Rome, Ab urbe condita (BNF Fr. 263, fol. 113), beginning of the 15th century
• Construction of the Tower of Babel (Getty 33, fol. 13), c. 1400-1410
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, The City of God (BNF Fr. 172, fol. 117v), first quarter of the 15th century
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, De casibus (BNF Fr. 226, fol. 8v), first quarter of the 15th century
• Building the Tower of Babel from the Book of Hours of the Duke of Bedford, c. 1423
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, De casibus (BNF Fr. 232, fol. 5), second quarter of the 15th century
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, Jean de Courcy's La bouquechardire (BNF Fr. 63, fol. 2v), second quarter of the 15th century
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, De casibus (BNF Fr. 229, fol. 6), c. 1435-1440
• Construction in the Chroniques du Hainault, fol. 232, c. 1447-1448
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, Speculum humanae salvationis (BNF Fr. 188, fol. 38v), mid-15th century
• Alexander makes a wall around Gog and Magog (fol. 131v) and construction of Bucephalia (fol. 185), The History of Alexander (BNF Fr. 9342), mid-15th century
• Rudolf Meir, Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317.2, fol. 76r), 1454
• Construction of Alexandria (fol. 90) and construction of Alexandria Eschate (fol. 201v), The History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 20311), third quarter of the 15th century
• Construction of a villa, Livre des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx (BNF Arsenal 5064, fol. 2), third quarter of the 15th century
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, The City of God (BNF Fr. 27, fol. 122), third quarter of the 15th century
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, De casibus (BNF Fr. 230, fol. 6), third quarter of the 15th century
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, De casibus (BNF Fr. 233, fol. 5), third quarter of the 15th century
• Construction of Corunna (fol. 191v) and construction of the Temple of Hercules (fol. 214v), The History of Troy (BNF Fr. 59), second half of the 15th century
• Of the government of the cities, Latini's Book of the Treasure (BNF Fr. 191, fol. 239), second half of the 15th century
• The walls of Jerusalem, Fleur des histoires (BNF Fr. 296, fol. 146), second half of the 15th century
• The construction of the bridges of Cologne, the so-called Chronicle of Baudouin d'Avesnes (BNF Fr. 279, fol. 243v), second half of the 15th century
• The construction of Alberti's Tempio Malatesta, Heesperides (Canon. Class. Lat. 81, fol. 137r), c. 1457-1468
• Allegory of the Church, Speculum Historiale (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 1), 1463
• Construction of the Tower of Babel, The City of God (BNF Fr. 19, fol. 81v), 1469-1473
• Construction of Rome, Ad urbe condita (BNF Fr. 20071, fol. 5), c. 1470-1480
• Reconstruction of Jersualem, Antiquities of the Jews (BNF Fr. 13, fol. 287v), fourth quarter of the 15th century
• Construction of a monastery, The Golden Legend (BNF Fr. 244, fol. 99v), c. 1480-1490
• Various workers in the Mendel Hausbuch
• Construction of the monastery of St. Leopold by Rueland Frueauf the Younger, 1505
• Two men building a tower for St. Barbara, an altarpiece at Jazernica, Slovakia, 1517
• Of The Manner Of Building And Furniture Of Our Houses by William Harrison, 1577
• Stained glass roundel of building-construction from Sternberk, c. 1580-1600
• The Tower of Babel, 1590s